WOODWARD, Iowa — Rod Pierce is done with harvest. Now is the time to start putting pencil to paper, and that is especially important at a time when farmers are struggling to balance their books.
CHAMPAIGN Ill. — The weather conditions were so challenging this year, results from two test sites in the University of Illinois’ annual corn hybrid trials will be excluded in 2019 – one in northern Illinois and one in southern Illinois.
It would have been reasonable not to expect much out of the corn crop across parts of Iowa this year.
Japan’s parliament approved a trade pact with the U.S. that opens the country’s markets to A…
According to the University of Missouri Extension’s recent land value survey, the state’s go…
Jason Beyers hoped to be out in the fields, but when he looked outside to see fresh snow in …
OTTAWA, Ill. — It was striking to Kevin Nelson, a certified crop advisor, how few acres he s…
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Even as harvest continued across Missouri, snow covered the fields at the Un…
Matt Schelling knows a little about brutal winter weather.
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Downtown Grundy, Va. (New York Times photo by Julia Rendleman)A former coal town in southwest Virginia has been struggling to reinvent itself, but despite millions in taxpayer money spent on development and attracting alternatives to coal for 20 years, not much seems to be helping, Eduardo P…
Ivy BrashearAppalachia is frequently presented in pop culture through a series of tired stereotypes—often negative—that belie the complex nature of the people and the region, Ivy Brashear, a native of Viper, Ky., , writes for Yes! magazine."To this day, Appalachia is a largely misunderstood …
Here's a roundup of stories with rural resonance; if you do or see similar work that should be shared on The Rural Blog, email us at heather.chapman@uky.edu.Take over the Skagway News in Alaska for free. Read more here.It's called a "coyote vest."Want to protect your dog from coyotes or fera…
A new short documentary takes a close look at the difficulty of accessing mental health care in rural America. "Out of Sight, Out of Mind" zeroes in on Cochise County in the southeastern corner of Arizona. Many of the 911 calls in the area involve people with mental-health issues, and local …
Hettinger and Adams counties were about to become news deserts until the owner of the paper in Grant County, just east of them, became the new owner and published without missing an edition. The Dunn County Herald remains out of business. Slope County and Sioux County are the other news dese…
Editor’s Note: Brock Ideus is an Illinois Farmer Today 2019 CropWatcher who operates a corn and soybean farm with his father, Royce, in Flatville in Champaign County. The sixth-generation Eastern Illinois farmer has harvested his 11th crop and shares his views on faith and farming in a trying year.
Representatives of the National Pork Producers Council, the National Milk Producers Federation, the National Corn Growers Association and Iowa State University recently called on the U.S. Department of Agriculture to move as quickly as possible to establish a foot-and-mouth-disease vaccine bank.
NEW VIRGINIA, Iowa — When some of Don Hardin’s calves died nearly eight years ago, he had no idea his loss would become a child’s gain.
The topsy-turvy 2019 growing season ushered in more disease than usual, but relatively few fields were overcome, agronomists say.
As farmers hit the middle of November, there was a lot of corn left in the fields.
