Thieves in Eastern Washington stole about $90,000 worth of GPS units from farm equipment last month, the Grant County Sheriff’s Office says. Farmers should take extra precautions to secure their ...

While it's important for farmers to have creature comforts on the job it's also important for dairy cows to have people comforts, said Ed Switzer, 71, who was wearing a baseball cap that read, "Got ...

From horse-drawn planters to tractors that can mostly drive themselves — farming has come a long way the past 100 years. At the center of it all in recent years is the modern tractor with a GPS system ...

BADGER, Iowa (AP) -- Mark Thompson knows how difficult it is to drive a straight line across a field by headlight, especially after working an eight-hour day off the farm. He also knows the importance ...

MOULTRIE, Ga. (AP) - Darrell Williams spent part of his childhood behind a mule, plowing the fields on his family's tobacco farm. "It was hot," he said. "I had to follow that plow and that mule. There ...

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The powerful solar storm that made those dazzling northern lights visible across the U.S. also reportedly caused some headaches for North America's farmers. And it couldn't have come at a worse time.

Aided by a computer and a Global Positioning System — a constellation of Earth-orbiting satellites — a farmer's tractor can now drive itself. The use of such technology has increased in the past few ...

The geomagnetic storms that gave so many people gorgeous views also hit GPS satellites that help power farming tractors used for precise seed planting. Ian Sherr Contributor and Former Editor at Large ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A recent upgrade of the United States' global positioning system (GPS) will do little to assist farmers in their fields, says a Purdue University expert. Mark Morgan, assistant ...

Our host star goes through cycles of activity, and there are some periods of intense solar storms. These solar storms can ...