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The U.S. farm economy has been fighting one battle after another in recent years, but a new threat is on…
Just as the global economy cautiously emerges from one crisis, another is beckoning at the doorstep, one that is completely…
The US’s best weapon against a deadly cattle parasite threatening the beef industry is more than a year away from showing meaningful…
A flesh-eating parasite’s reemergence in Texas after six decades isn’t just threatening to impose millions of dollars in losses on…
It’s officially grilling season in the U.S., but when it comes to one of the most beloved protein sources in…
For many warm weather fruit lovers, the prospect of unlimited ripe and rosy peaches is mouth-watering. For Central California farmers,…
Farmers across the Great Plains are confronting an intense drought that threatens winter wheat harvests and is pushing cattle producers toward costly…
The world is in deep water, but only metaphorically. Basins, aquifers, and other natural storage systems have been drained past…
With the planting season ending in six weeks, skyrocketing fertilizer prices are forcing farmers into an impossible choice: cut back…
Growing up on a dairy farm in the rolling green hills of New Zealand’s Waikato region in the upper northwest…