Grain farming

A mouse sits on top of hay stored by Bruce Barnes on his family's farm near Bogan Gate, Australia on May 20, 2021. Vast tracts of land in Australia's New South Wales state are being threatened by a mouse plague that the state government describes as "absolutely unprecedented." Just how many millions of rodents have infested the agricultural plains across the state is guesswork. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

Plague of ravenous, destructive mice tormenting Australians

By Rod Mcguirk May. 27, 2021 11:32 PM EDT

CORRECTS YEARS OF FARMING TO 43 INSTEAD OF 45 - Morey Hill stands near a barn on his farm, Friday, April 16, 2021, near Madrid, Iowa. In 43 years of farming, Hill had seen crop-destroying weather, rock-bottom prices, trade fights and surges in government aid, but not until last year had he endured it all in one season. Now, as Hill and other farmers begin planting the nation's dominant crops of corn and soybeans, they're dealing with another shift _ the strongest prices in years and a chance to put much of the recent stomach-churning uncertainty behind them. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

US farmers finally see better outlook after 2 odd years

By Scott Mcfetridge Apr. 27, 2021 11:39 AM EDT

Bankers report strong growth in rural parts of 10 states

Apr. 15, 2021 02:45 PM EDT
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Strong economic growth continues in rural parts of 10 Western and Plains states even though business continues to lag behind the level it...

FILE - In this March 30, 2021, file photo, young unaccompanied migrants wait for their turn at the secondary processing station inside the U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley, in Donna, Texas. U.S. authorities say they picked up nearly 19,000 children traveling alone across the Mexican border in March. It's the largest monthly number ever recorded and a major test for President Joe Biden as he reverses many of his predecessor's hardline immigration tactics. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, Pool, File)

Policy changes help drive US migrant crossings to new highs

By Elliot Spagat Apr. 09, 2021 12:02 AM EDT

People pass next of an exchange shop which seen close amid a crackdown on some exchange shops by authorities around the country that the blame for inciting the crisis, at Beirut's commercial Hamra Street, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, March 16, 2021. More than half the population now lives in poverty, while an intractable political crisis heralds further collapse and Lebanese are gripped by fear for the future. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanese are gripped by worry as economic meltdown speeds up

By Bassem Mroue Mar. 19, 2021 02:07 AM EDT

Adrian Polansky, a farmer and former executive director of the USDA’s Farm Service Agency office in Kansas during the Obama administration, stops for a photo while touring his seed processing plant near Belleville, Kan., Friday, March 5, 2021. More than a year after two U.S. Department of Agriculture research agencies were moved from the nation’s capital to Kansas City, they remain critically understaffed and some farmers are less confident in the work they produce. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)

USDA relocations curtail ag research, farmer confidence

By Roxana Hegeman Mar. 06, 2021 10:12 AM EST

Children play at Primrose Hill Park in London, Jan. 29, 2021, as floodwaters turn a park walkway into a pond. (AP Photo/Sheila Norman-Culp)

VIRUS DIARY: It's mud, mud everywhere in UK's 3rd lockdown

By Sheila Norman-Culp Feb. 19, 2021 09:21 AM EST

Editorial Roundup: Iowa

By The Associated Press Feb. 15, 2021 10:00 AM EST
Des Moines Register. Feb. 11, 2021. Editorial: A silver lining of this pandemic: Iowans are connecting with health care providers ...

FILE - In this June 16, 2020, file photo, workers at an orchard put on equipment as they prepare to thin apple trees in Yakima, Wash. The agriculture industry is asking Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee to move migrant farmworkers and food factory workers closer to the front of the line for the coronavirus vaccine because they perform work that cannot be delayed or performed remotely. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

Ag industry wants farmworkers prioritized for vaccinations

By Nicholas K. Geranios Jan. 15, 2021 02:34 PM EST

Editorial Roundup: Iowa

By The Associated Press Jan. 04, 2021 10:00 AM EST
Fort Dodge Messenger. Dec. 30, 2020. Keep Bill Northey at USDA. Here’s a great way for Joe Biden to show bipartisanship ...

Farmers listen to a speaker as they block a major highway in a protest against new farm laws while it rains at the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh state border, India, Monday, Jan. 4, 2021. Ignoring the coronavirus pandemic, the farmers have been blockading highways connecting New Delhi to northern India for nearly five weeks, obstructing transportation and dealing a blow to manufacturing and businesses in the north. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Indian farmers to continue highway protests after talks fail

Jan. 04, 2021 08:52 AM EST

FILE - In this Monday, July 27, 2020, file photo, farmer Joe Marszalkowski holds a prosthetic leg that he found the day before in a soybean field on his farm in West Addison, Vt. The leg was lost by double amputee Chris Marckres while skydiving on Saturday. (Jack Thurston/NECN and NBC10 Boston via AP, File)

'Calamari comeback,' topless voter: New England's weird 2020

By William J. Kole Dec. 28, 2020 08:58 AM EST

'Calamari comeback,' topless voter: New England's weird 2020

By William J. Kole Dec. 23, 2020 09:00 AM EST

Kentucky farm economy holds steady despite pandemic

Dec. 04, 2020 11:14 AM EST
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky's agricultural receipts are expected to hold steady to last year's levels despite turmoil caused by the coronavirus, economists...

In this July 24, 2019, file photo, workers watch as a truck passes by stacks of shipping containers at a port in Yingkou in northeastern China's Liaoning Province. Authorities in China's rust-belt region are looking for support for its revival from Beijing's multibillion-dollar initiative to build ports, railways and other projects abroad. (AP Photo/Olivia Zhang)

China tightens restrictions on Australian exports

Nov. 03, 2020 04:21 AM EST

Hog farmer sentenced to life in corn rake killing of wife

Sep. 04, 2020 06:09 PM EDT
MANCHESTER, Iowa (AP) — An eastern Iowa hog farmer was sentenced Friday to life in prison in the death of his wife, who was impaled in the back with a corn...

In this May 21, 2013, photo, a dairy farmer sows barley on his property on the Darling Downs in Brisbane, Australia. A major Australian barley exporter barred from China in the latest trade dispute to blight bilateral relations said on Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2020, the Chinese were only now acting on grain shipments dating back to 2019. (Dan Peled/AAP Image via AP)

Australian barley exporter challenges Chinese ban

By Rod Mcguirk Sep. 02, 2020 07:14 AM EDT

China blocks Australian supplier's barley amid trade spats

Sep. 01, 2020 07:34 AM EDT
BEIJING (AP) — China suspended barley imports from an Australian supplier on Tuesday amid spreading trade disputes between the two sides. ...

The steeple at College Church in Wheaton, Ill. was toppled during a storm Monday, Aug. 10, 2020, in the northwest suburbs of Chicago, Ill. Church officials check out the damage from the rooftop which also left several trees in the nearby park heavily damaged. (Mark Welsh /Daily Herald via AP)

Powerful storm leaves 2 dead, heavy crop damage in Midwest

By Ryan J. Foley And Josh Funk Aug. 11, 2020 11:02 AM EDT

Editorial Roundup:

By The Associated Press Jun. 08, 2020 10:00 AM EDT
Des Moines Register. June 2, 2020. Intolerance and inaction will no longer be tolerated Can you hear us now? ...