Machinery harvests corn in Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska, last year. Low prices for row crops and high costs for fertilizer are squeezing Midwest row-crop farmers while the Southeast is still on an ...

In a survey by the Ninth District of the Federal Reserve Bank, of Minneapolis, lenders share details of continued lower income and spending and higher demand for loans during the fourth quarter of ...

Busch Light is partnering with the nonprofit Farm Rescue this July to raise aid for Midwestern family farms and ranches through the sale of its “Farming Cans.” The specialty cans available across the ...

Steve Robisky (CQ), a Cedar Falls farmer, sows seeds for native prairie plants into a field for a private customer in rural Cedar Falls on Wednesday, April 9, 2025. Robisky started farming 21 years ...

Researchers find that diversifying crops and integrating livestock improves farm efficiencies and ecosystem services in the US Midwest. The work is published in PNAS Nexus. Mathieu Delandmeter, Bruno ...

FARIBAULT, Minn. — A grassroots effort of a handful of volunteers showing up to lend a hand to farmers has now grown into a network of more than 300 people supporting small-scale farms across ...

Spring fieldwork got off to a good start in some portions of the upper Midwest in mid-late April; however, conditions in other areas were too wet to see the initiation of spring planting. Frequent ...

ST. LOUIS | A weekly drought report shows that conditions have worsened in some key Midwest farming states where the corn harvest is more than halfway completed. The U.S. Drought Monitor map released ...

ST. LOUIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Bayer is proud to announce that Cornfed Farms, a fourth-generation farm operated by the Mohr family, has been designated as the first Bayer ForwardFarm site in the Midwest ...

Do You Know Farmers in Indiana, Illinois, or Iowa? We are currently conducting interviews as part of the IMPACT²: Social-Ecological Memory in Midwest Agriculture project. This research explores how ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH) - Global clashes and trade wars hammered Midwestern states’ agricultural economies early this year, while a continuing boom in Southeastern states’ housing and ...