Armed with only the best of prognostication tools, here are the 2026 agricultural stories that people will be talking about.

Armed with only the best of prognostication tools, here are the 2026 agricultural stories that people will be talking about. I assembled together a copy of the Sortes Astrampsychi, cattle oracle bones ...

While nearly the same amount of corn and soybean acres have been planted every year since the mid-1990s, the use of ...

On Christmas Eve 2022, parts of Archer Daniels Midland’s Fremont, Nebraska, grain processing plant were damaged in an explosion. A mechanical malfunction had created a spark and combustible grain dust ...

Starting in 2020, consumers faced skyrocketing grocery store prices. A few factors were at play. The COVID-19 pandemic tied supply chains into knots. An outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza ...

This past year, China has significantly reduced purchases of U.S. agricultural exports in response to President Trump’s tariff hikes. U.S. farmers are struggling as Chinese companies have sought ...

This story is a collaboration between Inside Climate News and Sentient Media. More than a thousand hogs grow fat in the enclosed shed-like structures on Gene Tinker’s farm in northeast Iowa, while a ...

U.S. farmers are facing one of the widest gaps in a decade between what they pay to produce food and what they earn from selling it. New USDA data released on Dec. 15 show that by October 2025, the ...

This illustration highlights the impact of waste runoff, as seen in Postville, Iowa, where untreated waste from a local plant threatened the water supply of residents, many of whom work in the same ...

Workers at Triumph Foods pork processing facility are pictured on April 28, 2017. The facility houses 2,800 employees in St. Joseph, Missouri. photo by Preston Keres, USDA via Flickr A pig’s head ...