Producers and crop insurance industry representatives implored a House Ag subcommittee Wednesday to protect the program from cuts in the upcoming farm bill. Some witnesses at a hearing before the ...

During the next few weeks, many farm operators will be finalizing their crop insurance decisions for the 2020 crop year. The deadline to purchase crop insurance for the 2020 crop year is March 16.

Farming is predictably unpredictable, especially now. South Dakota farmers and ranchers like myself are familiar with the many challenges facing production agriculture. The vagaries of markets, ...

Advocates of conservation agriculture have long insisted that farmers who adopt use of practices such as cover cropping and no till or reduced till cultivation can improve the water-holding capacity ...