Weeds are a challenge for every farmer. The annual Midwest Mechanical Weed Control Field Day showcases solutions beyond ...

Here is a look at Monday’s business headlines with Jane King, where she discusses the Midwest harvest season and Halloween’s ...

Natalie Venegas is a Weekend Reporter at Newsweek based in New York. Her focus is reporting on education, social justice issues, healthcare, crime and politics while specializing on marginalized and ...

What can we learn about the wider U.S. economy by looking at business conditions and job markets on a region-by-region basis?

Nearly all U.S. farms are family-owned, with most considered small. See how they support local food systems, rural economies, ...

The following was written by David Oppedahl, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago policy advisor, and Elizabeth Kepner, business ...

Steve Robisky (CQ), a Cedar Falls farmer, sows seeds for native prairie plants into a field for a private customer in rural Cedar Falls on Wednesday, April 9, 2025. Robisky started farming 21 years ...

A community conversation just outside the Des Moines metro brought together two industries that rarely interact. On Monday ...

Why so many corn belt Americans continue to back Trump, even while feeling economic pressure driven partly by his trade ...

Researchers are studying whether solar energy systems can operate alongside farming without removing land from agricultural production. Charles Gould, a bioenergy educator with Michigan State ...

Few people outside Quaker Oats know exactly what the Cedar Rapids factory is making when a sweet, wholesome smell wafts from ...

Spring fieldwork got off to a good start in some portions of the upper Midwest in mid-late April; however, conditions in other areas were too wet to see the initiation of spring planting. Frequent ...