Farmworkers take a quick break in a field in southeastern Iowa in late July. While this summer has not been especially hot in Iowa, the crew leader (standing) said, he's noticed over the years summers ...

USA, — Global clashes and trade wars hammered Midwestern states’ agricultural economies early this year, while a continuing boom in Southeastern states’ housing and tech jobs kept their economies ...

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 ...

Disaster relief, farm bill passage, FARM Act, crop insurance and improved commodity prices are all things farmers will be looking at in an effort to plan budgets in the new year. Hail damage was just ...

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 ...

Juan Peña, 28, has worked in the fields since childhood, often exposing his body to extreme heat like the wave that hit the Midwest last week. The heat can cause such deep pain in his whole body that ...

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 ...