Missoula
In the month of July, the community farm donated 225 pounds of produce, including lettuce, radishes, scallions, sweet peas, mixed greens and parsley.
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Montana
BOZEMAN, Mont. — Wildfire smoke hanging on for weeks may still matter for some Montana forage crops, even though much of the wheat and barley harvest have already finished.Â
Kansas
TOPEKA — Kansas is on course for its smallest winter wheat harvest since the 1950s, with a July report showing the state’s farmers are expected to produce almost half the number of bushels they did at the same time last year, an expert said. A July 10 report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture projected […]
States Newsroom
More than half of North Dakota is now in a drought, with blistering July heat shriveling crops and taking a toll on pastures. The U.S. Drought Monitor, which is updated weekly on Thursdays, shows a third of the state in moderate drought and more than 23% in extreme drought. The extreme drought area increased dramatically […]
Missoula
Randy Winstead, who retired in 2015, shares his underground mining memories in a new book after 30 years on the job.
Iowa
Water quality is shaping up to be a big issue in many of Iowa’s races for the Nov. 3 election but especially in Iowa’s race for secretary of agriculture, where Republican incumbent Mike Naig faces water quality advocate and Democratic candidate Chris Jones. Iowa Capital Dispatch sat down with each candidate to talk about water […]
Commentary
My family farms just under 1,000 acres near the headwaters of the Minnesota River and the Red River on the continental divide. The view out our window is an expanse of fields and sky that spans for miles. Water that comes to our farm through rain and snow eventually ends up in the Minnesota River, […]
Colorado
John Harlow, one of the early white settlers in Mesa County, first planted fruit trees in 1882 at his farm at Rapid Creek, a few miles from what is now Palisade. Those are widely considered the first fruit trees in Grand Valley, and they spearheaded the agricultural tradition of peach-growing in the area. Those trees, […]
Shreveport
HALLSVILLE, Texas - A family-owned farm in East Texas is working to reconnect people with agriculture through hands-on education, wellness programs and community events.
Commentary
It’s not hard to find data that points to a farm crisis in our state. Arkansas not only lost 166,000 acres of farmland in five years, but also led the country in farm bankruptcies in 2025. There’s no shortage of reasons why this is happening: land prices have soared, land is lost to development, older […]
