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Land management tool helps contractor stay on top of brush

Diamond Mowers’ attachment head helps to provide success for 641 Excavating, an Iowa land management business. Read More

Massey Ferguson has a new line of compact tractors. (Photo courtesy of AGCO Corporation.)
Biz News, Farm Equipment, Machinery, New Products, Tools and Tech

Massey Ferguson offers new compact tractor series

Male ruby-throated hummingbird hovers upright near a nectar feeder. (Photo: iStock - CharlieFloyd)
Home and Family, Outdoors

Hummingbirds arriving soon



Hostas, the stars of shady landscapes, earned the National Garden Bureau’s nod as Perennial of the Year for 2024. (Photo by David Trinklein.)

Hosta steps out of the shadows in 2024

  • By Linda Geist │ University of Missouri Extension
Gardener pruning fruit tree brunches with pruning shears (Photo: iStock - ueuaphoto)

Cutting back branches leaves trees with healthier outlook

Freeze damaged trees may not make it after this latest cold snap, but homeowners should give high-value plants a chance to recover before removing them. ‘Looking dead’ is not necessarily dead in many cases. (Texas A&M AgriLife photo by Courtney Sacco)

‘Learn to live with ugly’ after freeze damage

A specimen of common smoketree with its smoky panicles. (Photo courtesy of Michele Warmund.)

Smoketree: A sizzling hot plant that’s not just for summer

The center pivot irrigation system at the Oklahoma State University McCaull Research and Demonstration Farm will be one of the topics discussed at this year’s Panhandle Crops & Forages Field Day in Eva. The Aug. 31 event kicks off the fall field day events with topics like sorghum varieties, nitrogen management, soil moisture monitoring and managing spider mites in corn. (Photo by Todd Johnson, OSU Agriculture.)

OSU Ag fall field days begin in August

Birds brighten winter landscape

Thompson elected chairman of House Agriculture Committee

HPJ’s 2023 Down Country Roads calendar contest now open