USA, — Global clashes and trade wars hammered Midwestern states’ agricultural economies early this year, while a continuing boom in Southeastern states’ housing and tech jobs kept their economies ...

Steve Robisky (CQ), a Cedar Falls farmer, sows seeds for native prairie plants into a field for a private customer in rural Cedar Falls on Wednesday, April 9, 2025. Robisky started farming 21 years ...

Machinery harvests corn in Scotts Bluff County, Neb., last year. Low prices for row crops and high costs for fertilizer are squeezing Midwest row-crop farmers while the Southeast is still on an ...

Midwest farm groups are emphasizing the need for an updated farm bill as many producers face challenges like extreme weather and high interest rates. The clock is ticking for Congress to address the ...

Zemua Baptista had dreamed his whole life of becoming a farmer. In late 2019, while still in college, he was able to get a contract and a beginning farmer loan to build eight chicken houses to raise ...

Disaster relief, farm bill passage, FARM Act, crop insurance and improved commodity prices are all things farmers will be looking at in an effort to plan budgets in the new year. Hail damage was just ...

Spring fieldwork got off to a good start in some portions of the upper Midwest in mid-late April; however, conditions in other areas were too wet to see the initiation of spring planting. Frequent ...

Agriculture is an $88 billion industry in the Wisconsin with 1 in 9 jobs in the state related to agriculture so it’s no surprise the 38th annual Midwest Farm Show in La Crosse is a big hit. With about ...

Farmers look at equipment on display at the Midwest Mechanical Weed Control Field Day at the Iowa State University Horticulture Research Station in central Iowa on August 20, 2025. Weeds are a ...

Machinery harvests corn in Scotts Bluff County, Neb., last year. Low prices for row crops and high costs for fertilizer are squeezing Midwest row-crop farmers while the Southeast is still on an ...