Precision seed metering and control systems represent a pivotal advancement in modern agriculture, engineered to deposit seeds with unrivalled accuracy and uniformity. These systems integrate ...

Seventy-five-thousand dollars is a lot of money to put into a tool whose only job is to obliterate weed seeds. But buying such a tool – called a harvest weed seed control system (HWSC), which uses ...

Research appearing in the journal Weed Science shows promise for controlling herbicide-resistant weeds in soybean fields by using a seed impact mill at harvest. When installed on a combine, this ...

In the field of modern agricultural machinery, pneumatic conveying seed-discharge systems have been widely adopted due to ...

Smashing a weed seed to death as it passes through a combine is a technological reality fast approaching U.S. farmland. Seed mills, capable of chewing through vast amounts of weed seed at harvest, ...

How can crop seeds age more slowly and live longer? In a recent study published online in PNAS, researchers uncovered a gene network mechanism underlying the regulation of rice seed vigor. Seed vigor ...