Too much corn is not making it to the bin in central Illinois as harvest season nears the finish line. If you’re still combining, consider Ken Ferrie’s recommendations to bolster results.

My only conclusion is that machines can secretly talk to each other via some sort of long-distance mechanical telepathy.

Whether you call it slugged, plugged or wadded-up, a combine jammed with weeds or damp crop is enough to make a preacher cuss. Here are tips to minimize your frustration and downtime.

Manufacturing meltdowns are hitting the U.S., as semiconductor shortages expand into other components. Supply chain woes now pose a threat to the food supply and farmers’ ability to get crops out of fields.

“Precision and autonomy are an opportunity for us, and Raven really helps put us in a very, very competitive position,” Wine says.

USDA counts 12.5 billion bushels of capacity on U.S. farms, which is 900 million more than just four years ago.