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

More than two decades ago, researchers worked with famers to envision a healthier, more sustainable future for Corn Belt ...

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

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 ...

I am a fifth-generation farmer, wife, mother of four young children and vice-chair of my county board of supervisors. We farm with our family in Southeast Nebraska, growing corn and soybeans in ...

NORTHFIELD, Minn. — At a family farm in southern Minnesota, President Joe Biden announced another $5 billion to help the rural economy and protect farms like that of Brad Kluver. “For decades, ...

Iowa farmers can get paid by the Iowa DOT to leave rows of corn standing along their fields' edges this winter to protect roads from drifting snow.

Grandparents Myron and Kay Shonkwiler in the summer of 2020. Myron Shonkwiler, who founded Shonkwiler Farms in the Arcola area, died in October 2020. His wife is still living. Picking corn on the ...

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 ...

Climate change is no longer an abstraction. I can literally see it at my front door. My figs ripened in October 2024, which has never happened before as it was never warm enough during that month. In ...