This pint-sized combine should take the tedium out of collecting grain samples for the moisture meter. It’s called the Minibatt and has most of the bits and bobs you’d find in a full-size machine.

GYPSUM — Tiny reaping machines that pale in size to real-world combines pulled into a weedy wheat field on a mid-July afternoon and began gathering grain in sacks. The miniature contraptions, each ...

Spring crops are still four or five weeks from cutting, but in general have improved significantly since the rain came after the mini drought. Agricultural contractor Tommy Prendergast, Cashel, Co ...

The vast majority of second cuts silage has yet to be made on beef farms, due to broken weather and a delayed first cut. And it will soon be time to start planning for banking grass for the autumn.