Earlier this year, 205 custom operators and farm managers responded to a 2026 survey, submitting nearly 4,700 expected custom ...

Myron Eberts stood on the platform of his red Case IH combine with a matching red t-shirt—the only color shirt he ever wears— blue jeans, scruffy gray beard, and his baseball hat adorned with the logo ...

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 ...

Hayden and his family kicked off wheat harvest around 3 PM, rolling out with three combines ready to tackle the fields. Right from the start, things got interesting – technical hiccups with the ...

Occasionally there can be a need to use a harvest aid on grain sorghum. The crop usually is left to terminate and senesce naturally from either the plant maturing out or by a killing freeze. The main ...

When harvest season arrives, the last thing any farmer needs is a storage crisis. Yet every year, agricultural operations face the same challenge: how to efficiently store and manage grain without ...

Custom farming agreements usually include tillage, planting, some weed control, harvesting, and delivering grain to a specified location.