Agriculture

Applications to a USDA program to help farmers add solar panels is seeing increased applications. Falling prices of solar equipment is making the renewable energy a more viable option on the farm.

Maricel Mendoza is familiar with the work migrant and seasonal farmworkers do. Growing up, her family traveled from Texas to central Illinois every year...

German biotech giant Bayer AG could lose tens of millions of dollars from a federal ban this week of its widely used dicamba weedkiller. The Environmental…

An advisory group Gov. Mike Parson appointed during the record-breaking 2019 floods has released a report that calls for strengthening levees and other…

While farmers are hurting in the coronavirus economy, how badly depends largely on where they are selling their crops and livestock.“If your normal place…

ROLLA — The economic downturn following the spread of the coronavirus in the U.S. has hurt agriculture in the short term but is also providing…

Near-record precipitation last year has set the stage for renewed flooding along the Missouri River and its tributaries, according to a forecast...

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation plans to build a nonprofit organization in St. Louis to advance technologies that would help small farms in…

The number of Missouri farmers who are pessimistic about the new year is double what it was at the same time in 2019, according to a new survey by the…

A tentative agreement easing trade restrictions with China seems like great news for farmers, who’ve been pummeled by the trade war. Some farmers,...