When a 40-foot container rolled up to my property and the doors swung open, I finally got to meet a machine I’d only last seen half-finished on a factory floor in China. Sitting up front, nose ...

Battery tractors and biofuels compete as manufacturers test alternatives to diesel engines for tomorrow's farms.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. COLUMBIA, Mo. – A first-of-its-kind tractor ...

As agriculture tries to clean up its act, the roar of the diesel engine is likely to become a thing of the past in the countryside. But electric farmers don't want to their battery-powered machinery ...

Diseased crops or livestock can cost a farmer his livelihood for the season. So having earlier information about when a disease or another stress, like a pest or drought, is taking hold is extremely ...

An East Bay company that created an electric-powered autonomous tractor has decided to chop more than 100 jobs in Livermore.

"Tractor rollover claims life" is an all-too-common headline in Iowa, and Andy Winborn is working to eliminate such news, with the help of university engineers and researchers. The numbers are ...