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Galen Fick milks 50 Brown Swiss cows every day on his farm in Boyden, Iowa, where his family has been in the dairy business for generations. Life as a...
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Sara Creech has grown dependent on farming. She started out planting an orchard of fruit trees - apples, peaches, cherries and pears. She added berry…
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Across the Corn Belt, farmers are signing up for Farm Bill support programs and which ones they choose will impact the overall price tag for…
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2014 was the year even the lunch ladies got political.Harvest Public Media was created four years ago to report on agriculture and food production in the…
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President Barack Obama signed the new farm bill into law Friday at Michigan State University in East Lansing, ending years of negotiations and…
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The US Senate passed the farm bill Tuesday by a vote of 68-32, sending it to the president’s desk and ending years of political wrangling.The legislation…
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It’s getting so close now… Wednesday morning the U.S. House passed the Agriculture Act of 2014, the new farm bill. The Senate is expected to take a…
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Congress won’t pass a farm bill before early next year.That was the message from Washington Tuesday, when the principal farm bill players emerged from…
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Though farm bill talks heated up this week in Washington, key legislators emerged from negotiations Thursday disappointed and predicted there would be no…
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The farm bill expired at midnight on Monday, leaving farmers and ranchers across the country guessing at what federal farm policy will look like when they…