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A few decades back, stopping at a Stuckey's during a holiday road trip wasn't uncommon. Today the company is eyeing a business comeback by focusing on its farming roots and leveraging quality Georgia pecans.

“When Ukraine fails, in terms of their ability to produce agricultural products, the world becomes less safe,” says Howard Buffett, global philanthropist and Illinois farmer.

This holiday season may you enjoy time with family enough that the gifts gather dust in perpetuity on your very own gifting shelf. 

With just six quick notes a year, you can provide real, relevant information to your landlords. 

How to protect the computers that run America’s farms. 

If you are adding a new farm for next season, take a hard look at soil health. Missy Bauer, Farm Journal Field Agronomist, says start with the canvas rather than the paint.

You could "lose the farm" because of an unforeseen cyberattack. Here's how to understand your risk and protect your farm.

Learn how to create a groundwork for high yields and profitability.

Growing up in New Mexico, around a family of farmers and ranchers, rain was the currency of hope. I spent every season waiting on rain. Anything over a 10% chance was a “good chance” for moisture. 

Intentional or not, humans have helped shape today’s weather patterns. Now they’re looking at technology to protect their future.

When farmers or ranchers in the U.S. face tragedy others in the industry are quick to help. That same mentality, of farmers helping farmers, has reached Ukraine as support rolls in from across the globe.

Rural communities are likely to see an outbreak of the COVID-19 variant omicron later than big cities but Chief Medical Advisor to President Biden, Dr. Anthony Fauci says the pandemic will eventually end.

Small, rural hospitals are struggling to keep, find or hire staff as the omicron variant begins its push across rural America. Rural healthcare advocates say it's already creating an unsafe situation.

Innovation often just requires a well-timed spark and an opportunity to open the door for new ideas.

The act that helped open the country to settlement by farmers and veterans, the Homestead Act, is now approaching its 160-year anniversary. In use until 1986, some 270 million acres were claimed and settled.

Inside the 174,000 square foot facility millions of lettuce plants grow from seed to harvest without the single touch of human hands.

California vegetable operation focuses on sustainability.

AgDay Broadcast - More crime in farm country...this time involving the theft of thousands of apples and pumpkins from farms in Michigan and Indiana.

AgDay broadcast - South of the border avocado growers are taking matters into their own hands to protect their crop.

Washington leadership agrees to massive infrastructure deal, but details around funding and contents still need to be defined.

The latest Drought Monitor shows California is free of drought for the first time in more than seven years.

Chapter 12 bankruptcies are rising and so is farm debt with the average size of loans now at nearly $75,000.

Talk about a meeting between president's Trump and Jinping have changed the mood of commodity markets. 

Dozens of foods likely to provoke extreme disgust in many people - but considered palatable, even delicious, in their home cultures are going on display at the Disgusting Food Museum in Malmo, Sweden.

National FFA Convention rolls out the Blue Room. A 17,000 square foot interactive experience for attendees focusing on technology innovation.

Biological advancements continue to help solve previously unsolvable issues in agriculture including new hope in the fight against citrus greening

Clinton Griffiths shares the first ever campaign from the American Pecan Council.

Olympic hopefuls are from all over the United States but it helps if you live in Vermont.

Bugs, Chickens and Food for Thought make the list of top food trends for 2018.

The obsession with pumpkin spice is now worth roughly $500,000 annually and its use is up tenfold since 2004. But, is peak pumpkin on the way?