This story was originally published by DTN/The Progressive Farmer. Could Project 2025 derail the farm bill? Or could it possibly accelerate efforts to get a farm bill passed if it looks like former ...

The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule next month on whether lawsuits can be brought against pesticide and herbicide makers over claims their products have caused cancer. The court heard arguments ...

Caspar Dowdy, a University of Missouri student, and Paloma Sanchez-McGee, a recent University of Nebraska-Lincoln graduate, ...

Loyalty programs have been part of the seed and chemical industry — typically, the seeds and pesticides required to grow commodity crops are sold together — for decades. Some have termed them “velvet ...

The nation’s cattle inventory is at its lowest level in decades, the result of a long-term decline that has been pushed even lower in recent years by drought. Much of the country endured severe dry ...

Late 2025 marked the most severe three-month stretch in more than a decade for the gap between what agriculture producers pay to operate and what they receive in return, according to an analysis of ...

The influx of dollar stores into the rural landscape can have a devastating effect on grocery stores and other small businesses in rural areas, research has found. When dollar stores move into a rural ...

Note: This story was updated 10:23 a.m. Jan. 27, 2025. Nestled along the curves of the Illinois River just outside the town of Hennepin is the country’s largest dry-mill ethanol plant, where a network ...

The Sipcam Agro facility in Wayne County, Mississippi, formulates and packages paraquat. It has also released tens of thousands of pounds of the chemical into the air. Researchers have linked paraquat ...

This illustration highlights the impact of waste runoff, as seen in Postville, Iowa, where untreated waste from a local plant threatened the water supply of residents, many of whom work in the same ...