While FBA and ECAP payments are an important and welcome step in addressing near-term financial stress, they do not fully ...

For the last several decades, the default path for American farmers and ranchers has been increasing specialization of the agricultural activities on their operations. In 1949, American farmers ...

Warning against “blind ambition,” Ron Robbins placed his row crop acres on the scales, spurred by successive years of ...

The experimental photovoltaic farm at Purdue University’s Agronomy Center for Research and Education in fields of soybean and corn. West Lafayette, Ind. — A Purdue University research team has ...

When people are asked what a “small farm” is, they may base their answer on the number of acres or number of animals a farm has – and they often assume that there aren’t many of them. However, small, ...

By P.J. Huffstutter, Karl Plume and Julie Ingwersen CHICAGO, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Across the U.S. farm belt, these have become ...

Machinery harvests corn in Scotts Bluff County, Neb., last year. Low prices for row crops and high costs for fertilizer are squeezing Midwest row-crop farmers while the Southeast is still on an ...

Farms come in all shapes and sizes, from a thousand-acre field planted in corn to a quarter-acre parcel supporting thirty different types of vegetables. One of the key differences between these two ...

Researchers from Germany have developed an innovative tool to enhance crop selection for agrivoltaics projects in 25 countries, thereby improving food security and energy efficiency in agriculture. As ...

Despite some sharp decreases in row crop agriculture in Mississippi, cattle and poultry had a good year, bringing the state’s ...