The Wallace family is well known to many in agriculture based on their leadership in publishing and government in the early 1900s. Henry C. Wa…
Mark Gress says he still receives phone calls almost daily asking if he has time to process hogs or cattle.
The past couple of years have been more like tackling a giant obstacle course than navigating a friendly corn maze.
While most agree that as the agricultural sector improves it could benefit from infrastructure upgrades, not all share the same priorities.
CLARKSVILLE, Iowa — The snow is blowing and the temperature is somewhere between cold and Arctic today, but Keith Lovrien isn’t feeling down.
When it comes to how rural small businesses have been impacted by the coronavirus pandemic — and how they have started to recover — it’s not o…
North Clay FFA members sniffed out a worthy cause for their fundraiser — right under their noses. Their speed in fundraising success surprised…
KEWANEE, Ill. — When Andy Peterson was a young boy helping with the family hog business in central Illinois, he was certain about what he didn…
Thad Simons has taken a circuitous agricultural journey, from Georgia farms to Europe and finally to St. Louis.
ELBERON, Iowa — Aug. 10 is not a day Ryan Vavroch is keen on remembering, but he hopes he never forgets.
ST. LOUIS — Some key relationships among companies sharing space at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center are made in the lunchroom.
ST. LOUIS — Though many farmers may not be familiar with the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, the work done here doubtless impacts their …
It’s February, which often seems like the longest month of the year. With the amount of snow and ice currently piled up in eastern Iowa, we ar…
When Holly Spangler attended her first meeting of the Illinois Society of Professional Farm Managers in 1998, the 22-year-old university gradu…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A strong majority of farmers say the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted their mental health, according to an American Farm Bure…
Editor’s note: This is part of a series on U.S. Secretaries of Agriculture from the Midwest.
China isn’t the only game in town when it comes to trade.
One of the top questions when it comes to COVID-19 vaccines is “When will it be my turn?”
ONARGA, Ill. — For the Willis family, the 21st day of the 21st year in the 21st century was a lucky one.
Learning to weed, weld or wire is a whole lot tougher without hands-on learning.nBut it is happening every day as students learn physical skil…
You’ll have to forgive Monte Shaw and the people he serves in the biofuel industry if they steal a glance over their shoulders every now and then.
Things are going to look different for the biofuels industry in 2021, and that’s a good thing, according to a number of experts who spoke at t…
CLINTON, Ill. — Larry Martin’s family teases him about using his old- fashioned flip phone.
If you want to get an idea of how much farming has changed, just sit in a tractor cab from a generation or two ago and then sit in a new cab. …
Barbara Stinson assumed leadership of the World Food Prize Foundation in January of 2020, taking over for longtime World Food Prize leader Ken…
Agricultural equipment sales are expected to be strong in 2021 as recovery continues across the farm economy.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The National Farm Machinery Show announced scheduled events will be postponed until Feb. 16-19, 2022. Despite initially plan…