It’s a Friday at 4 p.m. Birds are chirping and cows are mooing. The trees sway in the breeze as bees bumble about. Students toil away in dirt beds, working over a vast array of herbs, flowers, ...

Sleep is as important to humans as food and water, but it is often sacrificed to work, especially for farm workers. Dairy farming, in particular, can involve long hours and substantial physical ...

This rendering shows an aerial perspective of Dows Farm, an agri-community taking shape on approximately 170 acres owned by Linn County along Mount Vernon Road east of Cedar Rapids. (Reynolds Urban ...

Cold, wet weather continued to delay fieldwork across Minnesota recently, but area farmers are quickly moving to till fields, spread manure and fertilizer, and begin corn planting. The USDA’s latest ...

A look back at Spring Farm, the Ranney family’s historic Cape Girardeau homestead, as recounted in a 1950 article by Jo Ann Burton Bock — and what became of the farm after 146 years in the family. For ...