More than two years have passed since former U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue departed, but the brouhaha he created with one callous comment in the middle of his tenure remains memorable. Perdue, a…

CLEBURNE, Texas (AP) — Inside a bright greenhouse about an hour outside Dallas, workers in hairnets and gloves place plugs of lettuce and other greens into small plastic containers — hundreds of thousands of them…

Sericea Lespedeza is labeled as a noxious weed by the state of Kansas. This means landowners are required by law to control the weed. In the Southwind District, landowners and producers continue to fight this…

WASHINGTON — The roundtables, listening sessions and appearances at farm shows have largely wrapped up and lawmakers tasked with reauthorizing the nation’s agriculture and nutrition programs are comparing notes and beginning to draft the massive,…

Allen County Noxious Weed Director Kevin Turner presents a $1,500 scholarship from the County Weed Director’s Association of Kansas to Gavin Jaro, a recent graduate of Humboldt High School. Jaro will attend Kansas State University…

If it’s lucky, a successful business is known by its people.  In Allen County Farm Bureau’s case, that would be Debbie Bearden.   After almost 17 years, Bearden is leaving her position as its county…

When fourth-generation farmer John Pulcipher took on the family’s cherry farm business full-time 16 years ago, he says the profits were fairly good for the crop, particularly for growers like him in the Traverse City…

Tucked away off Main Street in College Park, Georgia, not far from the train tracks that run through the city a few miles south of Atlanta, is a three-story Victorian home with a wraparound porch…

BRIGHTON, Iowa (AP) — You-pick farms are struggling through heat, drought and haze as customers cancel picking appointments and crops across Iowa refuse to grow. These farms offer visitors the chance to harvest their own…

Marrying a farm kid has shown me the immense amount of pride in being part of the agriculture community. The agricultural profession, while rewarding, is challenging. Running big- dollar operations that are both physically and…