agriculture

The USDA is projecting higher incomes across farm businesses this year, mostly because of federal relief payments.

The agriculture economy is recovering from pandemic impacts and the August derecho better than economists expected.

It took a while for COVID-19 to hit rural Iowa. Now, the pandemic is hitting the state’s rural communities hard in many ways. As the pandemic drags on and gets worse, so may the strain of living under these unusual circumstances.

A conversation on the damage that has been done to crops and rural infrastructure in Iowa from Derecho2020.

Packages of seeds have been showing up on the doorsteps of houses across America. All 50 states warn against planting them because they may be invasive or otherwise harmful.

A partnership between Iowa and Uganda is helping to ensure school children get a safe, nutritious meal and farmers have a better chance of making a profit on their grain harvest.

The United States Department of Agriculture is seeking public comment on changes that it says will make getting loans for major projects easier for rural communities.

Grain elevators dot the Midwest landscape, but as the technology for getting crops to market has evolved, agriculture has abandoned many of those old buildings. Some towns no longer need an elevator, while others build new, modern ones without removing the older structures.

A new analysis of drinking water systems shows communities in five Midwest states have legal but potentially worrying levels of nitrates. The…

What if you could produce meat without having to raise or slaughter an animal?Cell-cultured meat is real meat that's produced without slaughtering an…