Growing up in the 1940s, Ron Kelsey was a farm kid who eagerly awaited one special trip each year—the Minnesota State Fair. His father showed corn there for more than five decades, racking up over 30 ...

As President Donald Trump begins his second term in the White House, America’s corn refining industry is eager to support his work toward a more prosperous rural America. The American corn farmer is ...

Corn farming is an important economic contributor in the U.S., not only to growers and rural communities but across 506 industry sectors in all 50 states. That’s according to the new “Study of the ...

America’s farms are harvesting crops and wind together, but a looming question remains: who pays when turbines retire?

Like many government agencies, the Department of Agriculture has a fraught history with discrimination and disenfranchisement. Farmers of color and young and beginning producers have long struggled to ...

I’m a corn and soybean farmer. I’m also a first-generation farmer who built my farm from scratch, and I fully expect it to be passed down through the generations. This is the way of American ...

Some family farms in Missouri have added corn mazes to their fields during the fall to supplement their income. There’s more to corn mazes than getting lost among corn that’s 10 feet tall. They can be ...

WELLS, Minn. — On a recent Tuesday morning, a group of high school boys turned a dusty Ford pickup off the paved country road and into a cornfield. Moments later, a farmer turned his green combine ...

Harry and Sally have nothing on Floyd and Dolores Fath. After all, that romantic comedy duo from the perennially popular 1989 ...

Giant wind turbines are rising over U.S. fields. Learn how farmers keep growing crops while generating clean energy from above.