Agriculture

A drop of rain hurdles toward a farm and finds itself in a nasty situation — soil mixed with fertilizer and cow poop. After soaking up nutrients, the droplet seeps below the surface into a nearby stream. An excess of nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus can cause toxic algae growth where nothing but plant matter can survive.

Agriculture leaders and food providers are urging Kansas and Missouri’s U-S senators to approve a bill that would help address farm worker shortages.

Cargill has confirmed workers at its Marshall facility have tested positive for COVID-19. The corporation won't say how many individuals have tested…

The global food supply faces a new threat: climate change. Extreme weather like the massive floods that hit the Midwest during planting season and the…

A new report says low commodity prices and weak farm incomes are continuing to hamper the rural economy in parts of 10 Plains and Midwestern states.The…

Four women own and operate Heartfelt Alpaca Creations in Columbia, Missouri. Three of the women, Mary Licklider, Linda Coats, and Diane Peckham, all…

In an effort to turn away from chemical pesticides, which have the potential to damage the environment, some farmers are looking in a new direction in the…

John Sam Williamson has been a farmer for more than 50 years. He knows his five grain bins stocked with corn and soybeans very well, but he also knows the…

Many Mexican migrant farmworkers are heading home at the end of apple picking season this October. Sixty-one year-old Maria Zavala is one of them.For the…

Generations of tilling and planting on the same land have left the nation’s soil in poor shape. And if farmers don’t change the way they grow crops,…