Agriculture

Despite its theoretical absence of color, circles of white cotton added a splash to the varying shades of brown covering the fields of southwest Kansas on a recent mid-October afternoon.

By Eric Durban.

It’s harvest time, when the fruits of labor bloom. When it comes to cotton, the fruit literally comes to bear.

After a couple of rains in the area messed up my plans to join the cotton harvest, the ground finally dried up and I hopped into the cotton stripper with farmer Tom Leahy to make the slow trek around his Stevens County, Kan., cotton fields. 

We’ve got a bit of dead time, here at the end of 2011, before work starts in earnest again on the 2012 Farm Bill.

By Peggy Lowe.

The world’s largest seed company may be seeing some resistance to one of its product by a very small pest.

By Peggy Lowe.

Outlawing the slaughter of horses may not sound like a bad thing. But for farmers and the animals, the consequences of such a ban in the U..S. have been far-reaching and complicated.

The Maytags, one of Iowa’s most famous pioneer families, are at it again.

But this time, they’re ignoring modern technology. And the surprising product is … popcorn.

According to a study from the Journal of Environmental Health Perspectives, Americans consume a lot of meat, and the quality of the meat products is directly linked to animal feeding management. So, if you’re an average eater who chows down on over six ounces of meat daily, consider checking out the nutrition content on the animal feed label.