Winter is the season of feeding cattle across the Northern Great Plains. For Dennis and Mykal Kirkpatrick, who ranch on the ...

Oats were once a major Minnesota crop, with about 4 million acres planted annually on average until the early 1960s. But in ...

Despite near-term volatility, the long-term outlook remains positive. Strong domestic demand, improving beef quality, and ...

Fish scientists at Auburn University have recently refined a gene replacement method for transferring an advantageous gene from alligators into catfish to increase disease resistance. The method purpo ...

Distinguished Professor Rufus Isaacs and College of Agriculture & Natural Resources alumna Gabriela Quinlan, now an assistant ...

Topsoil, also known as the A-horizon, is the most fertile and biologically active layer of the soil. That is the layer where farmers plant seeds, and it supports the crops ...

One llama is sprawled on the grass with its neck craned, basking in a patch of sunshine. Another stands on a dirt hill, ears ...

The Iowa Pork Producers Association elected Dean Frazer of Conrad, Iowa, the next president of the association during the ...

Andale, Kansas agriculture teacher Hunter Smith chose to teach instead of taking another path in the ag industry because of ...

The ubiquitous plastic beverage bottle makes up about half of plastic waste collected for recycling in the United States.

A collaborative team of researchers from the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, the University of Florida, Gainesville and ...

Much of cattle country is in the midst of -- or recently experienced -- a severe winter event including extremely cold temperatures and, in some regions, heavy snow or ice.