farming

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…

Like most farmers, Mark Nelson, who grows corn, soybeans and wheat near Louisburg, Kan., is getting squeezed. He's paying three times more for seed than…

JEFFERSON CITY - An Ameren Corp. subsidiary has won conditional approval to build a high-voltage power line across 95 miles in northeastern Missouri.The…

The Federal Reserve says farm income continued to decline during the fourth quarter in Midwestern and Western states, so farmers are borrowing more.But…

Sara Creech has grown dependent on farming. She started out planting an orchard of fruit trees - apples, peaches, cherries and pears. She added berry…

The Great Depression saw the U.S. arguably near rock bottom. Some of the economically hardest hit citizens were farmers and their families. Beginning in…

Corn farmers in southeast Missouri are expecting high yields — but low profits. The Southeast Missourian reports that the weather has been cooperative…

A tiny fraction of America's 2 million farmers produces most of our food. They are the winners of a long-running competition for land and profits that has also drained the life out of small towns.

Several Missourians in the U.S. House are backing a proposed amendment to the state Constitution on farming. The Missouri Farm Bureau says Republicans…

Farmers across the country are being encouraged to sign up for federal conservation programs. The catch is, as of now, the programs have no funding.Scott…