Replacing a seed plate on the Earthway planter is no sweat. Driving country roads in March or maybe April, you're likely to see a few of these in use for family vegetable gardens. The Stand 'n Plant ...

Potato kit specialist Standen Engineering has launched its new SR200 planter, which has a clever cup design that allows it to cope with longer and larger potato seed. Ely-based Standen has a history ...

Planting lettuce seedlings in the field. Photo by Lominda Afedraru. Though conditions in UK and Uganda are very different. Large scale commercial farming is faced with a similar challenge: How to ...

An inventive Norfolk farmer has solved a machinery quandary by designing his own home-built precision seed planter – made using 3D-printed plastic parts. Many farmers are inherent tinkerers and ...

Planting crops in very huge tracts of land with hand hoe can be a tedious activity that could go on for days, increasing the cost of labour for a farmer. In the normal planting system here in Uganda ...

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