Western Kansas has inserted itself into the corn belt, a region of the Midwest from Ohio to Nebraska that has dominated corn production. There might be better crop options for the Kansas climate, but ...

Weather trends toward drought have Texas cattle producers considering their options as cool-season forage planting gets underway.

Producers in the Texas High Plains are reevaluating the forages they grow because of declining irrigation capacities and increasing forage demands from the region’s dairy herds. The Texas A&M AgriLife ...

Driving through the heart of dairy country in the High Plains this past summer, one thing became clear—sorghum silage acres are up. With irrigation water from the Ogallala Aquifer dwindling, dairies ...

Third-generation farmer Amy France and team at NSP are on a mission to improve buyer demand for the crop domestically and ...

Farmers in the Southern Plains have a new battle on their hands. After fighting consecutive multiple years of devastating drought, rains have started to fall with some areas of the Texas Panhandle ...

The July 22 announcement by National Agricultural Statistics Service that they would resurvey seven states on corn and sorghum acres should not have come as a big surprise given how late the plantings ...

Corn is a key source of biofuel. Fertilizing it releases a potent greenhouse gas into the air, so the federal government had approved research to grow the crop with less nitrogen. The funding is now ...

LE SUEUR, Minn. -- On the far side of Minnesota's newest renewable power plant lies the heart of a nearly $45 million operation designed to produce an abundant supply of energy. Past a maze of storage ...