Kerissa and Charlie Payne are beginning farmers living their dream of raising two daughters on a farm in central Ohio. By conventional measures, their livestock farm, Covey Rise, is a success. Yet, below the surface, the challenge of finding quality affordable child care has kept their business from growing and…

In 1985, contaminated milk in Illinois led to a Salmonella outbreak that infected hundreds of thousands of people across the United States and caused at least 12 deaths. At the time, it was the largest single outbreak of foodborne illness in the U.S. and remains the worst outbreak of Salmonella…

Editor’s Note: This is the third in a series of four articles on the contributions farmers and tractor manufacturers made to winning World Wars I and II. This article originally appeared in Ageless Iron Almanac. Although historians still debate the true origin of the vehicle that is considered to be…

 I am about to attend one of the most stressful events anyone can imagine. That’s right: I will soon be going to my high school class reunion. Specifically, it’s the reunion that will mark 50 years since we graduated. Fifty years! How can that be? How is it that half…

After a week of warm temperatures, a low pressure system will bring cooler temperatures and precipitation early to the middle of the week. Precipitation will be widespread across the Midwest, ranging from North and South Dakota to Ohio. Southern Missouri to western Tennessee could get up to 5 inches of…

July corn ended the day up 7¢ at $4.54½ per bushel. July soybeans closed up 2¼¢ at $10.53 per bushel. July wheat contracts closed higher. CBOT wheat ended the day up 17¢ at $5.46 per bushel. KC wheat was up 13½¢ at $5.36¼. Minneapolis wheat was up 12¼¢ at $5.97¾.…