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Agritourism, which includes farm tours, U-pick fruits, and pumpkin patches, is booming.

An Iowa farmer is using YouTube and a new invention to bring back an old-fashioned style of agriculture.

Migratory farmworkers leave behind their families every year to plant crops, harvest them, and do everything in between. The job can be risky, but the coronavirus pandemic has made it even riskier.

Farmers are looking closely at what they might be able to expect from four more years of Donald Trump versus a Joe Biden administration, but they aren't finding a lot of solid answers. And any difference may not matter.

Some ranchers and lawmakers want to see more than federal assistance after losses caused by coronavirus disruptions. They hope COVID-19 is a tipping point for long-standing complaints about price transparency and consolidation within the beef industry.

The demand for free meals increased dramatically during this pandemic summer. In June, Illinois served almost 11 million free meals, more than seven times the 2019 figure. Iowa served more than four times as many meals this June as last year.

While COVID-19 has hampered farmers this year by forcing many farmers markets and restaurants to close, usually it’s the weather that threatens crops. A...

Lexington, Nebraska, is just one of the many rural communities that has long dealt with food insecurity, but the global pandemic both intensified need in the town of 11,000 residents and presented new challenges in getting people food.

With many state fairs across the country being canceled due to COVID-19, many small business owners will miss out on sales. States are hoping online sales can help make up the difference.

Mark Twain National Forest has launched an experiment: deploying herds of goats to eat kudzu and other problematic plants.

Grain elevators dot the Midwest landscape, but many of them are no longer used for their original purpose.

Amid the pandemic, shoppers saw beef prices spike, but ranchers weren’t seeing that money. Some critics claim meat processors are fixing the price of beef on both ends of the market.