The drought of 2012 was the worst since at least 1988, spanning the entire Corn Belt, from Ohio to Wyoming, and costing the agribusiness industry bill
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The way farmers use crop insurance has fundamentally changed — and that’s been costly for taxpayers. Instead of buying insurance policies that exclus
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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Thanks to a drop in market volatility and grain prices, farmers may pay up to 10 percent less this year for crop insurance. The fed
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Nearly a year after China re-opened its doors to imported U.S. corn, one former U.S. representative is recruiting Illinois farmers into a mass-action
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Each summer, hundreds of seasonal workers leave their homes in Texas and Mexico and travel more than 1,000 miles north to work in the corn fields of c
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