The horses are beefy, the farmers nostalgic and the legacy long. This weekend, generations of farmers will keep an old tradition alive at the 73rd annual International Plowing match, the oldest such ...

WHEN I bought my derelict Norfolk farm, and saw its weedy condition, its tired and tufty grass, its boggy roads and overgrown hedges, I determined to begin with it as a farm all over again; as it were ...

Plowing contests have been a popular feature of agricultural life in Ontario for well over a century. The gatherings put key skills on display,... Aug 24, 2012 — Plowing contests have been a popular ...

In conjunction with the Ashley Quasi-Centennial, The McIntosh County Heritage Society is planning an old-fashioned plowing contest for Friday, June 21, 2013 at 10:30 a.m. The event will use rules ...

Years ago local historian Leigh Gittens chronicled the construction of all those plow furrows still seen north of the city in the undeveloped hills. It was a WPA or a CCC project that was designed to ...

In the smoky haze of a September afternoon, fortnight ago, more than 10,000 people tramped over Martin Fry’s Illinois farm to see who could turn soil the straightest and best in the great Wheatland ...

In the southern part of Cayuga County near Poplar Ridge, stands the 200-year-old home of Jethro Wood. The house was named to the National Historic Register in 1964. The story of its builder and owner, ...

reporting from RED BLUFF, Calif. — John Duarte is a fourth-generation California farmer. Just outside Modesto, his family owns one of the biggest agricultural nurseries in the country. Duarte Nursery ...

Richmond, Minn. – On long summer nights, Gene Gruber makes the short walk from his home outside this central Minnesota town to the 40-acre hilltop planted in grass and oats. He studies the field, ...