Throughout rural Ohio, there is a unified, yet specialized relationship between Farm Credit Mid-America and Rural 1 st. On ...

Growing up in the 1940s, Ron Kelsey was a farm kid who eagerly awaited one special trip each year—the Minnesota State Fair. His father showed corn there for more than five decades, racking up over 30 ...

Like many government agencies, the Department of Agriculture has a fraught history with discrimination and disenfranchisement. Farmers of color and young and beginning producers have long struggled to ...

Rural communities are at greater risk of Parkinson’s disease. Researchers say that pesticide exposure and contaminated well ...

I’m a corn and soybean farmer. I’m also a first-generation farmer who built my farm from scratch, and I fully expect it to be passed down through the generations. This is the way of American ...

Across the central U.S., nitrate from crop fertilizer and livestock facilities is seeping into water underground. Many family ...

LANSING – As Michigan loses more farms, rural communities are experiencing significant changes, experts say. The U.S. Department of Agriculture reported that Michigan lost about 1,300 farms between ...

Firefighters from the Kent Fire Department in Jefferson County, Ind., practice a grain bin rescue in a simulator during training provided by the Indiana Corn Marketing Council, the state’s corn ...

Klay Rust shows a hog. He and his sister, Kynzie, have “a passion for agriculture,” according to their grandfather, Mark Rust, and “work hard showing pigs and completing chores around the farm.” Cody ...