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The Pear Bureau Northwest recently appointed new officers on its board of directors.

Summertime and fresh sweet corn go hand-in-hand. It’s like the perfect pairing – well almost perfect.

After two years of extreme weather during their season, Georgia watermelon growers are reporting smooth sailing.

Farms on the Kansas High Plains have long produced a bevy of crops and livestock, from wheat and corn to cattle and hogs. Now, a new type of operation is taking root in the southwest and northwest parts of the state called water technology farms.

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.