A young, central Illinois farmer says it been a challenging year growing organic row crops. Austin Reed, who came back to his family’s Piatt & DeWitt County farm full-time last year, says the second year of transitioning some of his acres to organic has been very different. “A hot, wet spring led to a very […]
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The senior director of communications and media relations at Ohio Farm Bureau says a recent survey measured stress levels and coping
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Leaders from the production and processing side of the dairy industry discussed what is and is not part of the USDA’s
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