Annual agricultural event features keynote speaker Monte Bottens and sessions on soil health, precision farming and ...

Farmer Will Tipton holds a radish, one of the cover crops he's using. Some scientists worry that the climate benefits of cover crops and other regenerative agriculture practices are oversold. Climate ...

Rotating crops, using compost, adding cover crops and flower strips, and reducing tillage are practices that can make farms resilient to climate change and bring environmental benefits, but Cornell ...

It’s no secret that agriculture—farming and ranching—is not easy. There are long days, planning, monitoring crops and livestock, and other challenges beyond farmers’ and ranchers’ control.

For the last several decades, the default path for American farmers and ranchers has been increasing specialization of the agricultural activities on their operations. In 1949, American farmers ...

The global agricultural system is not only obsolete and failing to feed the world’s population, but centuries of intensive farming have caused extensive damage to fragile ecosystems. Regenerative ...

Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig today announced a three-year extension of the popular, farmer-led Cattle and Conservation Working Lands Project. The extension renews program agreements in ...

Iowa Ag Secretary says this extension is crucial as the national cattle herd is the smallest in over 75 years.