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Robotic harvest is knocking on the door of traditional row crop production and cotton growers may bring in the first fruits. A massive technological push steered by Cotton Incorporated aims to deliver automated harvest via fleets of swarm robots to U.S. fields within 10 to 15 years.

Teach a boy to farm and he feeds others for a lifetime. When 12-year-old Evan Kirkpatrick worked his first five acres of soybeans in 2017, harvest represented a big link in a chain connecting past and present.

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While you might be glad to finally be done with harvest 2017, don’t neglect to make any necessary notes to improve combine performance next harvest. Farm equipment mechanic Dan Anderson says to watch for the following three issues.

Optimizing the performance of draper-style small grain platforms

Benefits of draper platforms might warrant an upgrade this year

Rise of ‘hobby farms’ means more untrained growers get maimed, killed

Moisture levels are going to be all over the board when combines roll this fall. In high-moisture situations, a few simple combine adjustments can minimize grain damage.

Beaten by a day’s harvest by rain and wind, producer Scott Flowers lost 200 acres of his best corn. With a 260-plus bushel crop on the ground, it was time to bring in a corn reel.

92-year-old farmer builds exactly what he needs