Soil management

When Jay Whalen started testing seed and cover-crop products on his own acres, the trials changed how the family farms in Livingston and La Salle counties. Today the Whalens run a 50/50 corn-soybean rotation with cover crops across their operation, and Jay says the practice has transformed field ...

As April ended, more than 61% of U.S. drought of the contiguous United States was in moderate to exceptional drought, a level the U.S. Drought Monitor says is the highest recorded for this time of year since it began tracking conditions. For producers, drought is not just weather...

As Kansas rancher Bill Sproul puts it, ranching is more than a job: it’s a promise to protect the land and the community that depends on it. Ranchers across the country manage pasture and native prairie to support livestock, wildlife and long-term soil health, often using practices passed down th...

Relentless Kona Low storms this spring dumped enormous rainfall across Hawaii, leaving the state's agricultural sector badly damaged and fields saturated. Some locations recorded more than 30 inches of rain during the March event, and University of Hawaii observers logged localized totals up to 6...