Domestic agricultural processing does more than create demand for farm commodities. It anchors economic activity in rural communities.

Some family farms in Missouri have added corn mazes to their fields during the fall to supplement their income. There’s more to corn mazes than getting lost among corn that’s 10 feet tall. They can be ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. I’m a corn and soybean farmer. I’m also a first-generation farmer who built my farm from scratch, and I ...

Like many government agencies, the Department of Agriculture has a fraught history with discrimination and disenfranchisement. Farmers of color and young and beginning producers have long struggled to ...

Jonathan and Carolyn Olson’s family farm has been going for more than a century. But within the past 30 years, they’ve made ...

Growing up in the 1940s, Ron Kelsey was a farm kid who eagerly awaited one special trip each year—the Minnesota State Fair. His father showed corn there for more than five decades, racking up over 30 ...

This 2026 Missouri Ruralist Master Farmer from Mercer has a mission to transform her farm and community for the next ...

Corn and soybeans may not often appear directly on your dinner plate, but they’re behind much of what does. From feeding the livestock that produce our eggs, meat and dairy to fueling global trade and ...

Klay Rust shows a hog. He and his sister, Kynzie, have “a passion for agriculture,” according to their grandfather, Mark Rust, and “work hard showing pigs and completing chores around the farm.” Cody ...

Firefighters from the Kent Fire Department in Jefferson County, Ind., practice a grain bin rescue in a simulator during training provided by the Indiana Corn Marketing Council, the state’s corn ...