Battered by billion-dollar hits from U.S. trade policy and historic storm damage, all piled on top of high property taxes and low farm commodity prices, Nebraska agriculture is reeling.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The USDA Farm Service Agency will accept applications beginning June 3 for certain practices under the continuous Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) signup and will offer extensions for expiring CRP contracts.
Bison, which roamed Minnesota in great numbers before the mass destruction of prairie land more than a century ago, have found a new purpose at a nature conservancy near the Twin Cities.
A pack of wolves returned after a three-year hiatus to kill three dozen sheep on a farm north of Park Falls on Monday.
The rural population, particularly farmers, face some challenges when it comes to receiving mental health services.
The Watershed Conservation Planning Initiative is preparing producers like beef cattle and crop farmer Brandon Hinderman to implement projects when the time is right.
Agriculture produced in Alabama that could face higher tariffs because of the trade war with China include: chicken eggs, potatoes, sweet potatoes, sweet corn, tomatoes, peaches, blueberries, apples, strawberries, soybeans and cotton, according to U.S. trade officials.
Warmer, drier weather is helping farmers get out and plant their crops, according to the latest USDA Crop Progress report. Based on that, the four main producing states, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota, have moved ahead 25 percentage points since the last report.
Photos of the season opening of the Anniston Farmers Market.
A new greenhouse was christened Monday morning at McClellan’s Cane Creek Community Gardens, thanks to fundraising efforts and a state grant.
Photos during the official opening of the Sherron Pritchett Greenhouse at Cane Creek Community Gardens at McClellan.
Dan Spaulding of the Anniston Museum of Natural History rescues a red tailed hawk just off the Bynum Leatherwood Rd. near Anniston.
 Images from area flooding in Calhoun County after several days of heavy rainfall in NE Alabama.
Images from the Coffee With Congress event at the Calhoun County Chamber of Commerce with US Congressman Mike Rogers.
Events of local interest from 75 and 25 years ago.
Twelve years ago, Debbi Merrill developed an interest in alpacas and purchased three for her farm. Now, the farm consists of 17 alpacas on 60 acres of land. People from across the community come to visit the alpaca farm every year.
Local farmers aren’t quite sure what to make of President Donald Trump’s seeming embrace, over the weekend, of a world without government subsidies for people who make products for export.
Images from the 2018 Alabama Governor Kay Ivey, State of the State Speech in Montgomery.
Events of local interest from 75 and 25 years ago.
Images from a property tax auction at the Calhoun County Administration Building in Anniston.
Events of local interest from 75 and 25 years ago.
Events of local interest from 75 and 25 years ago.
Under the withering heat and aridity of a drought that engulfs much of the Southeast and all of Alabama, the grass Wendell Wilson's cows would normally chew is brittle and dead.Â
