Iowa State University researchers are developing front and rear attachments that allow a conventional combine to harvest corn stover (the stalks, cobs and leaves) as well as grain. The stover could be ...

HOLDREGE — It takes two rows of small, single-spaced type on a catalog index page to list all Hawkins Manufacturing ag equipment products. And that doesn’t count the many options to customize products ...

Front and rear attachments allow a conventional combine to harvest corn stover or cobs, as well as grain. Ethanol producer Poet is already generating ethanol from corncobs on a pilot scale and expects ...

Two brothers needed a way to create more revenue on the farm. They created a combine that saves the cobs to be sold. "There really wasn't enough room for us in the family farm to come back and be ...

Scott Flowers pulled off the highway and eased onto a winding county road, anxious to check his crops on an eerily quiet Friday morning. Truck wheels crunched gravel as he rolled alongside one field ...

At a farm outside Conway, an 87-year-old man climbed onto a combine to harvest corn for about an hour Sunday afternoon. It’s an event Bernie Samuels had been anticipating for at least 15 years, since ...

After a hot weekend with high temperatures in the 90s, much cooler weather is rolling in, and Iowa farmers are starting to get their tractors and combines rolling into the fields. Angie Rieck Hinz, an ...