On a hot August day in central Iowa, a few hundred farmers from across the Midwest gathered in demonstration fields at the Iowa State University Horticulture Research Station.
Signs of stress in the farm economy are everywhere you turn, and with corn futures hitting fresh lows again this week, crumbling commodity prices are painting a dreary outlook for 2025, and the financial pressures are causing another bleak reality: farmer suicides are also on the rise.
It was 1874 when a large influx of Russian immigrants settled in Kansas bringing with them a hard red variety of wheat.
Western Kansas farmers consider alternative crops to save water
Roy McNutt was 17 when he spent a summer picking pickles for America.
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