"For a thousand years," Abdullah Sheikh's family has been working the land the same way - flooding fields in Egypt's Nile Delta and planting seeds by hand. But now a small, relatively cheap plough has ...

Robert Sampson, like his father, grandfather and great grandfather before him, is really called Edward. According to his birth certificate, Robert is his middle name. The same is true of the farmer’s ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The ploughman turning over the soil, burying weeds and presenting a fertile seedbed for next year’s crop, has ...

THE Farming Simulator PC and console game franchise has been a good way to at least learn the basics on creating a profitable farm. However, it shouldn’t be confused for a serious tool to help ...

German agricultural implement manufacturer Lemken has unveiled its concept for a "carbon farming plough". The machine is in the process of being developed in collaboration with the Leibniz Centre for ...

It's easy to get misty-eyed about the plough (In praise of… the plough, 15 October); it has after all played a large part in feeding the world for millennia. It is also responsible for destroying ...

Farmers’ contribution to food production and countryside management was marked at Ripon Cathedral, where the Yorkshire Agricultural Society supported the annual Plough Sunday Service. The service took ...