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When Paul Betcher’s phone rang last year, he had no idea how a rocky patch of land on his farm would turn into a windfall.

The company posted double-digit sustainable sourcing gains for both U.S. dairy and wheat.

A budget bill that would eliminate a longtime research center at Iowa State University is headed to Gov. Terry Branstad.

At great cost, phosphorus is laboriously mined and processed so it can be used by the agriculture industry. Some 27.6 million metric tons were removed from the earth in 2015. But an agtech UW-Madison spinoff has discovered another innovative way to collect this valuable mineral.

Farmers have tried to operate sustainably for decades, though for much of history they probably wouldn’t have used that terminology.

Provide innovative products and equip staff with the knowledge to coach producers, experts say.

Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey believes it’s wrong to think every complex problem has a simple solution, and water quality would be a prime example.

Animal welfare and sustainable farming objectives are outlined in the major food and beverage company’s 2017 Corporate Sustainability Report.

Investigators have linked three large fish kills this month to livestock manure that had been spread on farm fields in northwestern Ohio, and now they’re looking into whether any laws were broken.

Officials at the U.S. Department of Agriculture say farmers in Vermont are making better-than-expected progress in reducing the amount of phosphorus flowing into two of four “priority” parts of Lake Champlain.