The federal funding package to reopen the government included a one-year extension of certain 2018 Farm Bill programs.

Smith: At a time when the farm economy is facing a downward turn, farmers and ranchers are looking for expanded market ...

More than two decades ago, Joan Iverson Nassauer, professor of landscape architecture at the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability, helped envision a new future for Corn ...

Like many government agencies, the Department of Agriculture has a fraught history with discrimination and disenfranchisement. Farmers of color and young and beginning producers have long struggled to ...

The Stierwalt family: Front row, from left, Katie, Danny, Rich, Maddie and Derek; back row, from left, Eli, Daisy, Henry, Rosemary and Hannah. Cows and their calves grazing on pasture on the Stierwalt ...

Year-round E15 can lower gas prices, boost corn demand and strengthen U.S. energy security. Explore how permanent E15 ...

The Zahnd family, from left, Colette, Tucker, Melissa, Harold, Larry, Marguerite, Coral, Tanner and Andy Zahnd. Preparing to plant in a Zahnd family field. Harold Zahnd dumps grain. From left, Andy ...

Apr. 30—Historic issues often determine the migration patterns of people. The Magsamen family, this week's Farm Family of the Week, is one example. Greg Magsamen gives some of the history and outlines ...

A wind power boom in the nation’s central corridor has been a financial windfall for some struggling rural areas. Coke County, Texas, which has a population of about 3,300, had the biggest increase in ...

Firefighters from the Kent Fire Department in Jefferson County, Ind., practice a grain bin rescue in a simulator during training provided by the Indiana Corn Marketing Council, the state’s corn ...