Agriculture

High temperatures can stunt potato growth, and that means chip makers need to pay more to transport their crops long distances.

Jessica Mozeico, owner of Et Fille Wines, started the business with her father. She hopes she can pass it along to the next generation.

The farm bill’s current price thresholds don’t reflect higher production costs like gas, machinery and chemicals, all of which have gotten more expensive.

Purdue’s Farmer Sentiment Index hit an 8-year low in August.

Will there be a new Farm Bill this year? Will the Federal Reserve cut interest rates? These are a few of the questions top of mind for Brian Duncan, farmer and president of the Illinois Farm Bureau.

Since the 1990s, precision agriculture has promised to revolutionize farming, by giving growers granular information about what’s happening with the crops in their fields and new technology to actually put that data to good use. But the new developments in precision ag have yet to fully transform farming.

Crop prices have fallen as production increased, and many farmers have already bought all the equipment they need.

"Soybeans are down 18 cents today and then they could go up 50 tomorrow. Who knows?" said April Hemmes, a soybean farmer in Iowa.

Higher global demand for the drink and climate change's effect on supply are behind the upward trend.

Some are looking for new uses for fleeces while others shift to breeds that don’t produce much wool at all.