Like it or not, farmland has become an infrastructural landing zone for energy expansion. In rural areas across the U.S., ...

Records requests reveal how industry groups and legislators approach plans to alleviate rising costs to operate dairy farms.

The 2012 drought that devastated crops and pastures in much of the Upper Midwest didn't stop the price of farmland from shooting higher, especially in North Dakota. The average per-acre price of ...

Warning against “blind ambition,” Ron Robbins placed his row crop acres on the scales, spurred by successive years of ...

Linda Hezel starts clipping herbs, vegetables and produce from the vines on her farm in Kearney, Missouri, early each morning. The ground-mounted solar array that powers Hezel's home also provides ...

As corporate demand for renewable energy soars, that is creating new tensions in farm country. One issue pitting some neighbors against each other is where to site large solar power developments. Some ...

The Liberty Justice Center and Pacific Legal Foundation jointly filed CTM Holdings, LLC v. U.S. Department of Agriculture in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa, Eastern Division ...

The Smithfield Foods facility in northwest Oklahoma. Smithfield is owned by the WH Group, a Chinese food processing company headquartered in Hong Kong. (Photo by Zach Lucero, for Investigate Midwest) ...

Investors from foreign countries owned about 3.6% of U.S. farmland in 2023, according to recent data. Foreign investors owned about 46 million acres of U.S. farmland in 2023 — which is less than 4% of ...

Linda Hezel harvests basil in the shade of the solar array on Aug. 5 at her farm in Kearney. “When it’s super brutal out, I’m so grateful for the shade,” Hezel said, adding that it’s safer to work ...