High costs of owning machinery are leading more farmers to hire out custom work on their operation. Kent Thiesse gives a look at how those custom farm costs look for 2025. Hiring custom farm work like ...

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.

Farmers who depend on custom work or provide custom services can review rates charged by others across the state in the latest Iowa Farm Custom Rate Survey. The 2024 report was published in the March ...

Corn farming is an important economic contributor in the U.S., not only to growers and rural communities but across 506 industry sectors in all 50 states. That’s according to the new “Study of the ...

Many Iowa farmers hire some custom machine work in their farm business or perform custom work for others. Others rent machinery or perform other services. In order to help producers and custom ...

Discover how early American farmers shelled corn by hand, the role of corn shelling bees, and how mechanical shellers ...

SHEFFIELD, Ill. — A Bureau County agriculture business is taking precision agriculture to the skies. Two years ago, Gripp Custom Farming Corp. started exploring using drones as a large-scale method ...

Some family farms in Missouri have added corn mazes to their fields during the fall to supplement their income. There’s more to corn mazes than getting lost among corn that’s 10 feet tall. They can be ...