Following several years of high input costs, declining crop prices and stagnant congressional investments in critical farm programs including risk management tools, trade promotion programs, marketing ...

Over the years Seth Watkins has won praise for the way he farms. Pinhook Farm, in southern Iowa, grows diverse crops without commercial fertilizers and with limited pesticides. It also tries to tune ...

The start of a new school year and the warm glow of Friday Night Lights signals the end of summer and the start of fall. Those same indicators also portend – every four years, anyways – the impending ...

Landowners anguish over selling out versus staying put — and dealing with new neighbors who know little about farming.

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act extended commodity programs and crop insurance, but left other farm bill titles for 2026 ...

For farmers who grow anything but soybeans and corn in Illinois, buying crop insurance is nearly impossible. Even an insurance agent couldn’t figure out how to safeguard his vegetable and poultry farm ...

PETALUMA — The chickens on Mike Weber’s farm live in coops, not cages. Their care has earned an official “Certified Humane” designation. Their organic poop, treated with solar-powered dryers, is ...