AMES, Iowa – Iowa State University scientists are leading an effort to improve efficiency and genetics in organic corn production, a fast-growing sector of the agricultural world since the beginning ...

While demand for organic meat and milk is increasing by about 20% per year in the United States, almost all organic grain and forage to support these industries in the mid-Atlantic region is imported ...

America may export more grain to feed cattle, pigs and poultry than any other country, but it’s losing share in its own backyard. Because most of the corn and soybeans harvested across the Midwest ...

KANSAS CITY — The price for organic food-grade corn and soybeans in the fourth quarter averaged above fourth-quarter 2018 values, while durum declined, according to Mercaris, the organic and non-G.M.O ...

KANSAS CITY — Trading volume of food-grade organic wheat and corn continued to build in May, but soybean volume eased somewhat, while prices during the April-May period were mixed compared with ...

The United States is importing more organic corn and soybeans than it’s producing, according to recent data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service. Expand your ...

AMES, Iowa – Organic agriculture practices eschew many synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, putting pressure on crops that conventional farming circumvents. That means an organic farmer who doesn’t ...

Hippies and anti-GMO zealots grow organic crops. Right? Wrong. Timothy Gertson kicks up dirt off Texas’ Gulf Coast, southwest of Houston in Wharton County. He’s a young 31, but Gertson is an ...

LIBERTY, Ky. - The white van bumped down a dirt track into a scene from 100 years ago. Cultivated by horse-drawn plow, the corn harvest stood 8 feet tall in the field, hand tied into shocks dotting ...

For years, American farmers' battle against fake organic-grain imports has centered on Eastern Europe. Now, an organic farm in South America is being scrutinized. A lengthy complaint filed with the ...

Federal prosecutors say a southwestern Minnesota farmer reaped up to $46 million in payments selling conventionally grown corn and soybeans that he told buyers were organic. The federal prosecutor’s ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Sauvie Island’s Bella Organic is still days away from welcoming guests to its corn maze for the season, but the farm has already unveiled the new design that makes a statement ...