There are no easy answers about the pressure put on Midwest farmers by shortages stemming from the war in Iran, even when a clear pattern seems to have emerged. The conflict has seen closure of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Machinery harvests corn in Scotts Bluff County, Neb., last year. Low prices for row crops and high costs for fertilizer are ...

J.T. Gelineau, Mushrooms Naturally founder and chef, holds a bag of mushroom growing material at his mushroom farm in O’Fallon, Mo. Unlike other specialty mushrooms, morels aren't typically farmed at ...

Researchers find that diversifying crops and integrating livestock improves farm efficiencies and ecosystem services in the US Midwest. The work is published in PNAS Nexus. Mathieu Delandmeter, Bruno ...

Larry Dallas's farm in Central Illinois's Douglas County is as flat as it gets. That's a good thing for planting straight rows and maneuvering farm equipment in the field, but there's a major downside ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most corn growers, who are concentrated in the Midwest, pre-booked their fertilizer before price spikes that have reached as high as 45%. Some farmers find hope in a push within Congress to let gas ...