To examine evolving farmer perspectives on soil compaction, the 2025 Farm Poll survey included questions previously used in the 2013 Farm Poll, allowing researchers to compare responses over time.

Parents are on post-prom or fundraising committees for high school athletic boosters or some other school-related campaign, and they go around town asking businesses for donations.  As parents helping ...

April 15 was an unusually warm spring day in Belle Plaine. Jim Glisczinski's worn farm boots compressed the soft, freshly unfrozen ground as he walked toward his new John Deere planter. The complex ...

These deeply rooted habits follow farm kids into their eighties and beyond.

As a farmer, he was constantly experimenting and testing out processes and equipment, and he took that mindset into his ...

Soybeans beginning to sprout on a farm in Nashville, N.C., in Nash County, on Thursday, May 16, 2019. Nash County is among the areas seeing an influx of new, formerly-urban residents. There’s nothing ...

LARNED, Kansas — Tom Giessel vividly remembers growing up in the 1960s as a Kansas farm kid on the High Plains. In his memories, this place that some refer to as “ the middle of nowhere ” was teeming ...

Before electricity, Wisconsin farms relied on lanterns and manual labor. Electric companies didn't see a profit in changing that.

Editor’s Note: The following is adapted from Brian Reisinger’s book “Land Rich, Cash Poor: My Family’s Hope and the Untold History of the Disappearing American Farmer.” Unearthing hidden history from ...