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The U.S. Department of Agriculture will provide loan guarantees to make it easier for processors to build new facilities, add on to existing ones and improve supply chains.

Keeping livestock from getting overheated helps keep the animals healthy and maintains milk production.

Every spring, people scour river bottoms, searching for edible morel mushrooms. For many mushroom hunters, finding the hollow, sponge-like mushrooms is as much a draw as their earthy flavor.

Getting newborn chickens to their owners is always a challenge. But the recent extreme weather posed an challenges for Midwest hatcheries.

The nation's ethanol industry is recovering slowly from the pandemic shutdown, but some wonder whether it would be better off coming back smaller.

Missouri and Oklahoma are both trying to help reduce the supply chain problems in the meat industry seen during the coronavirus pandemic by directing federal grant dollars to meatpacking plants.

People are eating a lot of meat, both in the U.S. and around the world, and that could be good news for the cattle sector in 2020. Things are looking up...

The State Emergency Operations Center in Johnston, Iowa, has sloped auditorium-style seating and plenty of outlets to keep laptops and cell phones...

Missouri’s process of inspecting migrant farmworkers’ housing is riddled with holes and easily abused, according to interviews and documents obtained by...

Even though the Midwest is tops in field corn production and grows row after row of it, these states don’t stand out when it comes to national...