Latest News From Alison Rice

Land grant university leaders and farmers will tell you that ag majors have their pick of jobs when they graduate, but that message has not reached the general public.

Panama Canal expands, but can U.S. ports keep up? 

Dairy farmers say they’re fed up with the posturing of presidential candidates who don’t understand the importance of immigrant labor to milk producers.

Cover crops are back in style. That's the latest, according to The New York Times, which on Feb. 6 published a feature story on the practice, which is believed to improve soil health and reduce nutrient runoff on farmland.

I can't stand pumpkin pie (or pumpkin spice lattes), but I'm a total sucker for giant pumpkins and stats about this crop. Here's a collection of spooky pumpkin facts, tips, and more, just in time for Halloween. 

The country’s 2 million farm workers could soon have less chance of harmful pesticide exposures, according to updated "worker protection standards" proposed today by EPA and the U.S. Department of Labor.

If you manage your family’s dairy farm, you probably already realize you earn a lower salary than the hired farm manager down the road.  

The markets may be down, but wages are up slightly for hired farm workers.

The changing American consumer is causing some shifts at McDonald’s.

Sen. Heidi Heitkamp says farmers have been "tremendously patient" about rail delays, "but that patience is wearing thin."

"Rural infrastructure projects have built-in advantages that should be attractive to financiers. For starters, investment dollars go farther," McGraw Hill Financial CEO Douglas L. Peterson wrote in an opinion piece for CNBC this week.

The new U.S. Rural Infrastructure Opportunity Fund is designed to connect rural projects in need of funding with interested investors and lenders.