Freezing weather across the U.S. will damage crops from winter wheat to oranges and is threatening livestock, sending cattle futures to an all-time high. As much as 15 percent of winter-wheat plants in the Great Plains face damage, Kyle Tapley, …
Across Louisiana, human beings aren’t the only ones who live to eat. Feral hogs are proving to be stiff competition, as they snack on sugar cane in Lafourche and St. Mary parishes and devour the rice fields of Acadia Parish. …
A bug that was once only found in China and Japan has hitched a ride to Iowa. The Iowa State University Plant and Insect Diagnostic Clinic has confirmed that the brown marmorated stink bug has made its way to both …
The drought ravaging America’s prime farmland is having an unexpected consequence that could shape the future of agricultural finance: in some cases, farmers who have amped up their insurance coverage may be giving up on their crops early rather than …
Heavy snow and rain through parts of the U.S. South in the last week helped ease a historic drought, but little long-term relief was forecast, and drought conditions were growing worse in the west, leaving a swath of the nation …
Storms that killed seven people in Arkansas and left a trail of downed power lines and toppled trees also did some harm to agricultural interests. University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture says some wheat fields were flattened in Lonoke County, …