agriculture

While Missouri is known for many crops, lavender is not necessarily one of them — but one couple in mid-Missouri decided to give it a try. Katie...

A statewide Latino advocacy group is hosting its first climate and environmental justice committee meeting this week. The meeting’s theme will be about more than just the natural environment.

An organization that receives reports on labor trafficking has found a large increase of cases during the COVID-19 pandemic. The increase was largely within the agriculture sector.

While Iowa's small-scale hog farmers need meat processing services, they are increasingly finding it hard to get access to slaughterhouses. USDA wants to build "resiliency" in the sector, but will it work?

A fungus that attacks vegetables has shown up early this year, and that could threaten the availability of pumpkin pie filling at Thanksgiving....

As Isaac Fisher walks in his pasture near Chattanooga, Oklahoma, he sees tracks and patches of grass that have been rooted up. When he visits his milo...

PRATT, Kansas — This summer marks the third year that Kansans have grown hemp for industrial uses. Yet growing the less sexy cousin of the plant...

A nonprofit that provides healthcare and other resources to agriculture workers in Iowa has launched its new program to include coverage for meat-processing workers.

Iowa State University will work with three central Iowa counties to create a laboratory to research and test technologies to boost rural broadband connectivity.

At issue in the case was a California law that allows union organizers to enter farms to speak to workers during nonworking hours for a set a number of days each year.