A recent USDA statistic making the rounds suggests that only 13% of U.S. farms purchase crop insurance. This figure is being cited by critics of crop insurance, particularly those interested in ...

For those who are chronically online, you may have noticed kids talking about “aura farming.” Even if you're not constantly scrolling the internet, you still might have heard the term. And we know ...

A truism is a self-evident claim, something so obvious that its truth can't be questioned. To anyone involved with Upper Midwest agriculture, the growing size and declining number of area farms is a ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government is revising its definition of what it means to farm, meaning some people who receive farm subsidies but don’t do any of the work would receive less government cash.

Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a marketing mechanism that connects farmers to individual consumers. This can eliminate several middlemen -- wholesalers, distributors and stores disappear in ...

Do you consider your neighbor’s five-acre property with 12 chickens a farm? No? What about your neighbor with two show pigs? No still? If that’s the case, the folks behind the USDA Census of ...