Philip Meredith describes himself as "a humble dirt farmer from Western Kentucky." When it comes to high-yield soybean competition, Meredith is more like a thoroughbred racehorse charging out of the starting gate.

Would consumers pay more for beef that has higher nutritional levels? One University of Florida (UF) researcher believes they might. She's already finding some breeds of cattle yield healthier meat than others.

John Lee is pretty straightforward about the mission of his grain bin safety workshop: "We are trying to make people stop and think so they don't do something stupid, which could cause death."

Cattlemen are a fiercely independent lot. Different focuses and philosophies often tied to a production system or even a cattle breed can limit common ground. But, solidarity rules when it comes to the issue of fake meat.

It may feel like only yesterday that you were doing spring cleaning, but the amber waves of grain outside my window tell me how much time has passed. Hopefully, all the seeds you've sown have grown into mature crops, and that harvest is only weeks away. Now is the perfect...

As some of the nation's leading soybean farmers gathered to focus on checkoff priorities for the United Soybean Board (USB), they can't avoid the pressures they face from tariffs, and they're placing a lot more emphasis on export diversification strategies, as well.

Irrigators across much of the U.S. have moved to center-pivot sprinkler irrigation during the past 25 years, but corn and soybean growers in the Mississippi Delta have found that tweaking surface irrigation with a trio of best-management practices (BMP) allows them a...