Three Amish men, sitting in a small office at the Gordonville Fire Company, hold separate conversations with three Plain Sect farmers. Sheets and sheets of white paper -- each covered with names and ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Before dawn on a cool July morning, the rumble of cars breaks the silence on a farm on Colorado’s Western Slope. Agricultural workers, prepared for the ...

Leroy Epp can’t recall ever harvesting corn this early. “(My son) Nathan asked me that last night — did I ever start this early?” Epp told the Mitchell Republic recently. “After 53 years of farming, I ...

Dealing with mycotoxins in corn during harvest can be double trouble for farmers. Not only do they reduce yields and grain quality, but if contaminated grain is fed to livestock, it can lead to ...

The hay mow was filled to the rafters with hay and straw bales, but the ear corn supply was gone as September approached. Oats and barley were decent substitutes until the new-crop corn moved from the ...

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Middle of Somewhere, Nebraska – How can it already be November 3rd and the harvest season is getting closer to the end? It always seems to fly by in the blink of an eye. Fall harvest overall has been ...