Iowa corn and soybean farmer April Hemmes paid double for nitrogen this year. Consumers shouldn’t blame growers for inflation, she said.

John Deere has unveiled a new autonomous tractor at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Farmers may be slow to adopt the technology.

Indigenous agricultural producers say they’ve had it with the federal government’s loan programs.

Higher wages for Deere workers will show up slightly in equipment prices —but that’s only one of many costs farmers face.

A big reason fertilizer is through the roof? Still-climbing natural gas prices.

Dewayne Goldmon of the Agriculture Department sees the aid as narrowing the economic gap between farmers of color and white farmers.

For some, insurance money is coming in, but according to one farmer, “it never makes you whole.”

As farm work, and COVID risk, pick up through the spring and summer, getting vaccines into the arms of workers is a priority.

“They are on the front lines of the food production industry in this country,” said Patrick Smith, who runs Loftus Ranches.

The state is limiting natural gas to human resource use, like heating homes.