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 ...

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 ...

Throughout rural Ohio, there is a unified, yet specialized relationship between Farm Credit Mid-America and Rural 1 st. On ...

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 ...

Some family farms in Missouri have added corn mazes to their fields during the fall to supplement their income. There’s more to corn mazes than getting lost among corn that’s 10 feet tall. They can be ...

WELLS, Minn. — On a recent Tuesday morning, a group of high school boys turned a dusty Ford pickup off the paved country road and into a cornfield. Moments later, a farmer turned his green combine ...

Rural communities are at greater risk of Parkinson’s disease. Researchers say that pesticide exposure and contaminated well ...

Iowa farmers have kept our top notch status in the Corn Belt for generations. Our state’s rise to top corn crop producer can be traced back 100 years – thanks in large part to the scientific curiosity ...

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 ...