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Every summer, thousands of Midwestern kids as young as 13 load onto school buses early in the morning to do one of the hottest, dirtiest temporary jobs...
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The corn and soybeans growing in Glenn Brunkow’s fields in the rolling Flint Hills north of Wamego, Kansas, got some much needed rain recently and look...
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A new study found that staple crops like corn and wheat, which provide a large proportion of the world’s calories and U.S. farmers’ output, will likely...
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Farmers in the U.S. like to point out that their products feed people all over the world. And while this is a diverse country, the people working on farms…
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Farmers across the Midwest are trying to figure out how to get by at a time when expected prices for commodities from corn, to wheat, to cattle, to hogs…
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Fantasy farming gives high school students from western Illinois a chance to learn firsthand about the guesswork and gambles that farmers make every…
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In a brightly-lit lab at the University of Nebraska Lincoln, workers with tweezers hunch over petri dishes scattered with sprouted sorghum seeds. Sorghum…
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At the grocery store, processed foods such as cereal, crackers, and candy usually maintain the same price for a long time, and inch up only gradually.…
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Galesburg aldermen came out on top after gambling on whether more money could be raised through renting land the city owns near Knoxville.The city had…
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Hundreds of lawsuits against seed company Syngenta could develop into a major class-action potentially involving almost every corn farmer in the…