As a kid, Perry Brown sometimes was called on to climb up steel grain bins to check if they were full. Now, Brown and partner Steve Erickson have invented and are selling a device that does the job ...

Dick Schirado has created motion-activated watering systems for cattle and other gadgets to make farm life easier. But he says the real challenge is convincing others to bring his work to market. Dick ...

Tired of waiting three or four minutes for his handheld grain probe to settle on a temperature value, Fife farmer John Hutcheson went in search of some permanent alternatives and has been crowned ...

Young innovators in contention for honours at the national finals of the Student Enterprise Awards Jack O'Sullivan, who comes from a suckler-beef farming background, has developed a €160 hoist to help ...

In today's food products, we like to tag certain words to packaging - food labels. Currently, there are dozens if not hundreds of different food labels. To name a few, these include: The general ...

Welcome to This Week in Farming, your one-stop shop for the best Farmers Weekly content from the past seven days. It might be soggy, but the air is milder and the mornings are lighter. I even saw some ...