Throughout rural Ohio, there is a unified, yet specialized relationship between Farm Credit Mid-America and Rural 1 st. On ...
Growing up in the 1940s, Ron Kelsey was a farm kid who eagerly awaited one special trip each year—the Minnesota State Fair. His father showed corn there for more than five decades, racking up over 30 ...
Like many government agencies, the Department of Agriculture has a fraught history with discrimination and disenfranchisement. Farmers of color and young and beginning producers have long struggled to ...
I’m a corn and soybean farmer. I’m also a first-generation farmer who built my farm from scratch, and I fully expect it to be passed down through the generations. This is the way of American ...
A rural development researcher says the 2026 Farm Bill should expand support for housing, broadband and other non-farm needs.
LANSING – As Michigan loses more farms, rural communities are experiencing significant changes, experts say. The U.S. Department of Agriculture reported that Michigan lost about 1,300 farms between ...
Corn and soybeans may not often appear directly on your dinner plate, but they’re behind much of what does. From feeding the livestock that produce our eggs, meat and dairy to fueling global trade and ...
An amendment to the Farm Bill that would allow permanent, year-round nationwide sales of E15 has recently been introduced by ...
Planters were rolling April 14 on the fields that will host the popular demonstrations during Husker Harvest Days in ...
The former LyondellBasell plant site, which has been cleaned up, is the prospective location for a $750 million corn wet-milling facility west of Tuscola. The LyondellBasell plant as it looked before ...