The new leader of the U.S. Senate’s agriculture committee, Arkansas’ John Boozman, has several ties to meatpacking behemoths, ...

Deere & Company, one of America’s largest farm equipment manufacturers, was sued Wednesday by federal and state governments for not allowing farmers to repair machines they own — an allegedly unfair ...

The Food and Drug Administration has not performed its legally required number of food safety inspections each year since ...

Corn, the nation’s largest crop, is produced for a variety of uses, including food for humans and animals, alcohol for fuel ...

Dust swirled as the 83-pound drone launched from a clearing near a Nebraska cornfield. With its four propellers humming, ...

Seeing how we all managed to survive another trip around the sun, it’s time again for this columnist to predict which ...

Preston Arnold on his farm near Sikeston, Missouri, where he raised chickens before market changes on April 17, 2024. photo by Daniel Byrd, for Investigate Midwest This story was updated Dec. 18, 2024 ...

Preston Arnold on his farm near Sikeston, Missouri, where he raised chickens before market changes on April 17, 2024. photo by Daniel Byrd, for Investigate Midwest Despite remaining tight-lipped about ...

The only way to significantly reduce phosphorus levels in Oklahoma’s eastern waterways is to ban the use of chicken litter as fertilizer, a soil scientist testified last month in a nearly 20-year ...