Ranchers got tired of Big Beef taking their profits. So they're starting...
A crane looms above a dusty field just outside of North Platte, Nebraska, where trucks loaded with dirt criss-cross the busy site and workers set up …
View ArticleThe EPA plans to retool its pesticide program in an effort to protect...
The Environmental Protection Agency is renewing its approach to pesticide regulation to address its longstanding challenge of complying with the …
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View ArticlePeaches are in short supply this year after weather pitfalls in the Midwest...
Despite the chatter and hustle of a dozen or so workers, the production line at Flamm Orchards in deep southern Illinois sits mostly quiet this …
View ArticleAmerica's chicken supply chain is vulnerable to salmonella. Researchers think...
Visit any grocery store and you can expect that the produce, meat and other products that line the shelves are not contaminated. But sometimes that’s …
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View ArticleCorn has deep roots in Mexico. Now efforts to ban GMO corn place culture and...
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is throwing down the gauntlet when it comes to corn, pitting food sovereignty against the country’s …
View ArticleCorn across the Midwest is showing the effects of heat and drought, USDA...
Dolf Ivener walks through one of his western Iowa fields, where many of the corn leaves have already turned from green to a dried-out hue of …
View ArticleServing farm fresh food in schools is getting big federal support — but will...
It’s a hot, buggy morning and Derrick Hoffman is poking around a densely packed row of bushy cherry tomato plants. Behind him, rows of peppers, …
View ArticleComposting businesses are sprouting across the Great Plains — but many cities...
In the middle of an urban farm, tucked behind houses and tall greenery, sit seven piles of food waste each in different stages of composting. Brooke …
View ArticleCongress will miss the farm bill deadline in the midst of a likely government...
In the midst of a likely government shutdown, Congress is missing another big deadline — the farm bill. The massive legislation passed roughly every …
View ArticleAs aquifer levels decline in the Great Plains, states like Oklahoma weigh the...
Mike Shannon first learned about the Ogallala Aquifer because he made a costly mistake. In the mid-1980s, Shannon was new to city government when one …
View ArticleThe risk of wildfires is growing across the Midwest, as harvest begins and...
A large fire in a farm field recently brought together firefighters and a dozen farmers to fight the blaze near Emerson in far southwest Iowa. Brian …
View ArticleEfforts to tag monarchs carry into a third decade — tracking the butterfly's...
With a flutter and flap of wings, monarch butterflies soar through the air. They float from flower to flower at the DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge …
View ArticleAfter no clean drinking water for 4 years, this tribal nation wants more than...
Over the hills of northern Nebraska and along the banks of the Missouri River lies the village of Santee on the Santee Sioux Nation Reservation. Home …
View ArticleA 'magnificent harvest' for the pumpkin crop in some areas — despite dry...
John Ackerman says his pumpkin crop was a good one this year, despite the fact his fields saw no measurable rainfall for weeks in the late spring and …
View ArticleAt this 124-year-old livestock show, kids steal the spotlight with their...
Bre Engler, 9, peppers little kisses across the forehead of her cow, Kinsley, while she waits for her father to set up the stall’s bedding. “Sometimes …
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