Most custom rates have increased 10 to 20 percent from the previous survey conducted in 2007. Rates for custom combining, aerial pesticide application and snow removal were exceptions, rising about 25 ...

Due to the high cost of investment in farm machinery, an ever-increasing number of farm operations are hiring other farm operators to provide some or all of their machinery resources for their farm ...

Many farm operators provide some type of custom work or use of farm machinery to other farmers during the growing season, and payment is usually made following the completion of the harvest season.

Need a gift for the grower, child or farmer-customer in your life? Two companies have thought of a product that caters to the farm kid in all of us. Aerial Rug and Boundri are using satellite imagery ...