A tractor on the O'Connor Family Farm in Blooming Prairie sits under the northern lights. Patrick O'Connor says he was unable to use his tractor after the solar storm responsible for the northern ...

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It was a clear, sunny day as Nick Nemec’s New Holland tractor was chugging across his field with a planter in tow. It was the South Dakota farmer’s first real opportunity to get his corn in the ground ...

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.

Over the last few days, heightened solar activity (and those heady geomagnetic storms) led to outages in the GPS navigation systems that guide some modern tractors from John Deere and other brands.

With AlignOps BusyBusy’s new GPS Equipment Tracking, contractors always know where their equipment is and what it is doing.

Deere & Company DEE unveiled a fully-automatic tractor for large-scale production. The new advanced machine features Deere's 8R tractor, GPS guidance system, TruSet-enabled chisel plow and latest ...