FS Bioenergia, a joint venture between Iowa-based Summit Agricultural Group and the Brazilian company Tapajós Participações, recently launched construction on its second corn-based ethanol plant in Sorriso, Brazil.

Agriculture faces a lot of issues moving into 2019, but none so serious as farm labor.

Drew Haines had been working for five years to boost the corn yields he pulls from his Maryland operation. And, he's done well rising to state and national ranking in the National Corn Yield Contest.

Sarah Switzer Sortum always sensed that something about her family's Burwell, Nebraska, ranch would have to change to support more than one generation.

Chalmers, Indiana, farmer Brandon Bell isn't waiting for that digital ah-ha moment, when with a simple mouse click or two, a computer generates game-changing recommendations that match the complexities of farming.

Give a farm animal a name, and, its life expectancy seems to leap to history-making proportions. It's a fact that holds true for chickens, especially once they've crossed into the Shangri-la world of schoolyard flock member and best friend to a room full of children.

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Progressive Agriculture Safety Days have provided the education, training and resources to make farm, ranch and rural life safer and healthier for children and their communities.

Progressive Agriculture Safety Days have provided the education, training and resources to make farm, ranch and rural life safer and healthier for children and their communities. For 25 years, Progressive Agriculture Safety Days have helped local communities conduct a...

I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in silence, and the truth comes to me. Albert Einstein

Fresh thinking combined with an entrepreneurial spirit led Sage Askin down an unconventional path as a successful young rancher.