African swine fever in China is now expected to boost global pork and poultry demand. Questions remain as to just how much U.S. meat exporters will benefit from the demand, however.

This advertorial series highlights Beck's Practical Farm Research and agronomy conducted over multiple states to help farmers improve profitability.

Farmers are known for being innovative, working with what they have to get the job done. Whether it's finding the extra expertise on crop nutrition or specialty equipment fabricated to fit their farms, farmers tend to know who to call. But, as your operation works to...

Blue Cross Blue Shield discontinued Randy Uhrmacher's group insurance plan at the beginning of 2018.

Data collection continues to be a big part of every farmer's daily chores. But, the reams of data are only as good as how the farmers use it. AgGateway, a nonprofit consortium of ag businesses, has for the last few years been evaluating ideas to enhance the industry's...

American farmers and ranchers are facing more pressure than ever.

Well over 400 years ago, before the United States was even a twinkle in the eyes of the founding fathers, 90 million acres of what would become the Southeastern United States was blanketed with longleaf pine forests. By the turn of the 21st century, things had changed...

COLORADO, Cheyenne County. Dryland farm totaling 300 acres sold at public action for $222,600. Average per-acre price was $742. Buyer received one-third of growing wheat crop, which comprised 150 acres of the land, and immediate possession of the fallow ground. Contact...

Innovation and love of cattle run in the Esch family genes. It's a foundation on which they're building a nationwide branded-beef business: Oak Barn Beef. At the center is whirlwind Hannah Esch, a 21-year-old college junior with a contagious enthusiasm for the beef.

There were fewer middle-sized farms in 2017 than five years earlier, and the age of the average farm operator continues to tick upward, according to results of the 2017 Census of Agriculture.

Much of the focus of this year's unusually wet spring weather has been on corn and the impact it will have on reducing ending corn stocks and raising prices in 2019–20, but another bullish aspect of spring took place in U.S. soft red winter (SRW) wheat.

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul. Alfred Austin