The 2018 farm bill that had divided the House last summer over food-aid issues ended up passing easily as Congress sent the legislation on to President Donald Trump for his signature.

It's growing season in the Mississippi Delta. The shop door slides open at 5:15 in the morning as David Hydrick and crew load motorcycles and four-wheelers for a new day of field scouting. With gas tanks filled the night before, coffee and lunch packed, he knows exactly...

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Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue in December announced with great fanfare a $600-million pilot project to build broadband infrastructure in rural America.

When cattle prices dropped by about 40% from late 2014 through 2016, it sparked calls for federal investigations into market manipulation. Some contended fewer packers were controlling more of the market.

Seeking to increase domestic crush of soybeans, Brazil announced it is boosting its biodiesel blend levels to 11% and, eventually, up to 15% nationally.

Late-term calf losses can set back a cattle program and can be hard to address, because the reasons behind the loss are often unclear.

Watch for lower-than-average germination rates on soybean seed tags this spring.

John Till lives close to irrigation utopia. He has the ability to run nearly all 15 of his center pivots at one time with five deep wells filling surface water ponds. The ponds enable 13 pivots to run 800 to 1,100 gallons of water per minute (gpm). Two sprinklers run similar...

For Dick Tatum, the past 15 years have seen a tremendous number of changes in his farm and farming methods all in an effort to protect the sensitive watersheds in southeastern Kansas that supply drinking water for thousands of Kansans and in nearby Oklahoma.

There's so much more now than there was--more people, more traffic, more buildings--but Glenn Arnold, 84 years old, stands on a ridge above his family's old homestead in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, and can only focus on what is gone.

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