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...

USDA has officially ended a rule on organic livestock and poultry practices that the Obama administration sought to implement at the end of the administration's tenure in 2017.

Del Unger's biggest concern with this year's corn crop is the timing. Because it was planted in a 12-day window, "We're either really, really right, or really, really wrong this year," says Unger, who with his son, Lance, farms near Carlisle, Indiana.

Reports coming out of New Zealand point to a potentially large increase in beef supplies from the small country, due to a nationwide attempt to eliminate Mycoplasma bovis from all beef and dairy herds.

Sara Shepherd is a sixth-generation farmer who really had no intention of becoming a farmer. Though she grew up on the family farm near Stuart, Iowa, and was heavily involved in 4-H as a child, the thought of being a farmer herself was never really on her radar. "I went...