Recently, USDA announced that $12 billion will be made available for the “Farmer Bridge Assistance” (FBA) program, which will ...

To till or not to till? Some might say running the tiller in the garden is the best part of it all. Other gardens never see a ...

By early December, my part of west-central Iowa transformed overnight from the dull grays and browns of late November to a ...

He arrived in 2014, specifically to be “a bearer of bad news, a besuited grim reaper” but nobody blinked because life and ...

The world barrels ahead, and living life keeps us moving. I often long to go back to the days when our children were little ...

James Hepp received his Iowa Farm Environmental Leader Award during a ceremony at the 2025 Iowa State Fair. Pictured (from left to right) are EPA Region 7 Administrator Jim Macy, Iowa Governor Kim ...

Darin Johnson, president of the Minnesota Soybean Growers Association is no stranger to business relationships stretching ...

Could soybeans be used as a paper-mache product?” It’s just another Google search in the day of an ag writer slash parent of ...

The Minnesota State Fairgrounds are a holy place to me. Not "this is my family's third generation in the same Pronto Pup booth" holy. Not "60 years showing purebred Holsteins from the same aisle of ...

This is just one of several bits of wisdom adorning “Old Ruthie,” the 19-something-or-other Model A Ford that moved the man known as Hillbilly Bob around the streets of this year’s Clay County Fair at ...

Most Midwest farm operators finalize their farm cash flow plans for the upcoming year during the months of January and ...

The 2026 cheese and butter price forecasts were lowered as price weakness in late 2025 is expected to carry into 2026.