Nebraska

More herbicides could face legal challenges in the coming years, but they were once a key player in the rise of modern industrialized growing systems.

With less than a half-day drive, you can get out of Kansas City and do it relatively safely, even in the middle of a pandemic.

Unprecedented flooding last year devastated many towns across the Midwest that are still struggling to come back. As Nebraska’s climate continues to...

The more than 13 million American households that get their drinking water from private wells aren’t required by state or federal environmental agencies...

On a recent bright, clear day in eastern Nebraska, a small red machine crept through a lush field of soybeans. From the highway, it looked like a small...

Wrens chirp and butterflies fly between clover blossoms in a pasture in northeast Nebraska. It’s a serene scene until Dave Wright calls his cows and...

Over the last two years, Rob Van Vleet has been slowly scrapping the last vestiges of Kimball, Nebraska’s first wind farm. The wind turbines are made to...

Every summer, thousands of Midwestern kids as young as 13 load onto school buses early in the morning to do one of the hottest, dirtiest temporary jobs...

Rural communities are some of the most politically disenfranchised when it comes to climate policy, and last year’s National Climate Change Report...

The Missouri River swamped Scott Olson’s land in March — the second time in the last eight years. Flooding tore holes in his fields and left mounds of...

The catastrophic flooding in Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa and Kansas last month caused more than $12 billion in damage, by one estimate.  But much more is at…

Family structures—and farms themselves—are much more complicated than they used to be. Today, farm transition and land transfer are now among the...