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As Greg Dell reviews the three years he and his family have spent developing a succession plan for their Westminster, Md., farm, he remembers how overwhelmed everyone was by the process in the beginning.

Half of the Earth’s land mass is made up of rangelands, which include grasslands and savannas, yet they are being transformed at an alarming rate.

Such crop switching is one sign of a sweeping transformation going on in California--the nation’s biggest agricultural state by value--driven by a three-year drought that climate scientists say is a glimpse of a drier future.

Governor Jerry Brown and California Democratic lawmakers enlisted business support of a $7.2 billion plan composed mostly of new bonds for water storage and delivery to drought-stricken cities and farms.

It’s a critical juncture for the Cotton Research and Promotion Program, according to Cotton Board Chairman Gary Ross.

Reduce threats from instability and shrink to corn silage.

“Why do you insist on bashing organic farmers?”

Sanjaya Rajaram’s 480 wheat varieties have been released in 51 countries on six continents and planted on more than 140 million acres.

Export to China is having an impact on U.S. corn and DDGS markets.

Spies in the furrows. Rat smells a cig. Golden banana agoniste. Water salvation from a slingshot. Cattle rustlers and AK-47s. A pig’s life. Turning milk into beer.