The husk. The "wrapper" that surrounds the cob of kernels should be "green and tightly wrapped. Dull, dry, or brown husks may ...

Tulare, Calif. – The U.S. agriculture industry is used to overcoming obstacles, but 2025 is shaping up to be a particularly daunting year. Labor shortages, water restrictions and the pending threat of ...

Steven's farm has been in his family for generations and he and his family are concerned about the future. "My grandfather bought this in 1963," he said. The family farm mostly beef cattle on their ...

From the development of rudimentary tools to today’s cutting-edge machinery, technological innovation in agriculture has steadily improved the efficiency of food and livestock production. Tools such ...

THORP, Wis. (WSAW) - Since 2018, the Dairy Business Innovation Association has awarded over 250 grants to small midwest dairy farms. Seven years later, that funding is in limbo. The U.S. Department of ...

BRUSSELS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A series of Magritte-inspired Surrealist artwork appeared outside the European Parliament – confronting policymakers with a visual warning about the future of farming in ...

Despite forecasts of larger farm net incomes, the debt-to-asset ratios on farms are up. While farm income of $179.5 billion is predicted, a full 40% of that total will come from cattle and government ...

National correspondent Annie Gowen and staff photographer Ricky Carioti have documented rural communities throughout the Midwest. They spent days in northeast Kansas this spring, interviewing and ...

A member of a farming family in rural Derbyshire has shared plans to future-proof its land by setting up an income-generating ...