Jonathan and Carolyn Olson’s family farm has been going for more than a century. But within the past 30 years, they’ve made ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. I’m a corn and soybean farmer. I’m also a first-generation farmer who built my farm from scratch, and I ...

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 ...

This 2026 Missouri Ruralist Master Farmer from Mercer has a mission to transform her farm and community for the next ...

Could corn go lower than $4? The key for ’26 is corn acres, Langemeier said. “If it gets above 95 million acres again, and we ...

Some family farms in Missouri have added corn mazes to their fields during the fall to supplement their income. There’s more to corn mazes than getting lost among corn that’s 10 feet tall. They can be ...

NORTHFIELD, Minn. — At a family farm in southern Minnesota, President Joe Biden announced another $5 billion to help the rural economy and protect farms like that of Brad Kluver. “For decades, ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture reported that Michigan lost about 1,300 farms between 2023 and 2024.

The Yoder family of rural Arthur, from left, Makayla, Cortney, LuElla, Kenny, Diana and Clayton. Kenny Yoder baling hay. Diana and Kenny Yoder unloading high moisture corn into a forage bag.

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 ...