If you're familiar with U.S. production agriculture, you know that the Conservation Reserve Program has seen a massive decline in enrolled...

Local foods, usually defined as foods purchased within 100 miles of where they're produced, offer both potential and challenges for agricultural...

These are tough times for area farmers and ranchers. Modern agriculture is driven, for both good and ill, by commodity prices and the weather,...

There are people, or so I'm told, who write down the lessons they learn during the year — and then, late in the year, review the written...

April was a memorable month for me. On April 8, I wrapped up my one-year term as president of North American Agricultural Journalists by leading...

Average U.S. farmland values and rental rates rose in 2019, according to two new annual reports from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National...

Regular readers of this column, all three or four of you, know that I stress the importance of honest, respectful communication, especially among...

A U.S. House appropriations bill would be good for agriculture, including sustainable ag, but the limited amount of time to gain needed broader...

Here and there, in certain states and crops, the 2019 Upper Midwest crop is showing signs of improvement. But the overall crop remains far less...

Most American farmers spent the last week of May and the first week of June either driving through mud or stuck in it. Their two farming partners,...

PENNOCK — Nearly two years to the day that a ferocious storm ripped apart barns at the Carlson Dairy farm — injuring cattle and throwing...

It's a truism in American agriculture that food-growing technology undergoes an industry-shaking metamorphosis every generation. When Grandpa...