“Yeah, you can buy dirt... And thank the good Lord for it... ‘Cause he ain’t makin’ any more of it.” The lyrics above are from the 2021 hit country song “Buy Dirt,” which voices a mantra that lives ...

Columnist Mychal Wilmes recalls the struggles his parents and a brother went through to survive the financial crisis conditions in farming.

Fig lovers in Italy and beyond might find their favorite fruit harder to come by this year. The summer "fioroni" fig campaign in the Apulia region was devastated by sudden frosts and heavy rains.

Florida fresh produce grower Jim Alderman says one thing is his biggest worry. “Who is coming behind us? That’s the part that keeps me up at night. It’s not just about growing crops, it also passing ...

Willie Nelson and Lily Meola at Farm Aid 40. (Photo by Brian Bruner / Bruner Photo) There was no shortage of buffalo check flannel and cowboy boots among attendees of Farm Aid’s 40th anniversary ...

The 40th Farm Aid benefit concert is being held on Saturday as the economic outlook for rural America is the gloomiest it’s been in decades. A survey released by the National Corn Growers Association ...

The former dairyman said it without emotion, like someone remarking that one-half inch of rain fell the night before. He and I, his wife and two teenage children, were seated at the kitchen table, ...

My favorite interview last week was 90-year-old Illinois farmboy John “Jack” Block. Block was former President Ronald Reagan’s Secretary of Agriculture from 1981 until 1986, the worst of the domestic ...

New polling shows that the majority of U.S. corn producers see an economic crisis on the horizon – or at least the possibility of one. In a survey published Wednesday commissioned by the National Corn ...

ARKANSAS (KAIT) - Shannon Hall’s family has tilled the soil of Poinsett County, Arkansas, for eleven generations, their roots stretching back to the Revolutionary War. But this year, the fields where ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (KCCI) -- Iowa soybean farmer Warren Bachman warns of a potential farm crisis after China halted purchases of U.S. soybeans in retaliation against new tariffs imposed by President ...

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (KOLN) - During our visit to Husker Harvest Days, we learned about an organization that provides haying, planting, harvesting assistance and more to farm and ranch families dealing ...