Eric Pfeiffer

A major federal push to ramp up U.S. fertilizer production promises relief for farmers squeezed by high costs—but one expert says it may be targeting the wrong problems.

For 35 years, a little-known federal program rooted in the farm fields of the Midwest has quietly helped thousands of Americans defy one of agriculture's harshest realities: injury. Now, that effort is drawing national recognition.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers is moving to shine a brighter light on one of agriculture's most persistent — and often unspoken — challenges: mental health.

Winter wheat is looking good across Indiana, especially if you compare it to the rest of the country.

As volatile commodity markets and rising input costs continue to squeeze profit margins across rural America, soybean growers are increasingly looking for ways to do more with fewer trips across the field.

As the Trump administration moves to rewrite North America's trade rules and deepen its confrontation with China, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer is signaling that tariffs are no longer a temporary negotiating tactic but a permanent feature of American economic policy — a shift already reverberating across the nation's farm belt.

As Congress begins debating a sweeping new transportation package that could shape U.S. infrastructure policy for years to come, farm groups are pressing lawmakers to embrace a long-sought change they say would lower costs for farmers, reduce fuel consumption and ease pressure on an already strained rural trucking workforce.

The planting window was only open for half the state last week, but Chief Meteorologist Ryan Martin says this planting window is wide open for all Hoosiers. His forecast is presented by Beacon Credit Union

For generations, corn farmers across the American Midwest have wrestled with a deceptively simple question: How much nitrogen fertilizer is enough?

The number of U.S. farm bankruptcies surged in April to its highest monthly level in more than six years, a stark signal of mounting financial pressure on agricultural producers grappling with rising costs and a challenging farm economy.