Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins made waves this week with claims that the Trump administration’s revamped food pyramid leaves plenty of room for Americans to maintain a healthy diet for as little ...

Lyndon Miller shows the bite cut differences between newly eaten grass and grass that has been allowed to grow after a nibble by cows on Monday, October 7, 2024, at the Miller farm in Weldon, IA.

For centuries, agriculture has relied on three essential assets: land, water and seed. In the 2020s, however, a fourth asset has become equally critical: data. I have spent much of the past year ...

The Jamie L. Whitten, Federal Building, U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C. (USDA photo) The Agriculture Department’s Food Safety and Inspection Service updated its labeling guidance ...

Soil testing is an essential tool for managing phosphorus, potassium and other nutrients in Iowa and many states. The units reported in a soil test are expressed in parts per million (ppm) of the ...

ABSTRACT: Soil fertility is a determining factor for agricultural productivity and food security. This study aims to map the spatial variability of soil fertility parameters (nitrogen, pH, and carbon) ...

Jonah Kaplan is an award-winning journalist who has built a strong reputation for his balanced reporting, thoughtful interviews, and deeply researched coverage of high-impact issues affecting the ...

The head of the US Department of Agriculture said the Trump administration is planning to have “everyone” receiving SNAP benefits reapply after a probe into a number of Republican-led states allegedly ...

Across Washington, a growing number of farmers are turning to regenerative agriculture — practices that rebuild soil health, protect water and strengthen local food systems for generations to come. In ...

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MADDOCK, N.D. — On any given day, rancher Brian Maddock is out in the drift prairie near the town of Maddock that bears his family name, dropping hay bales on wind-scoured hilltops and hardpan soil ...