In the soft dirt of an indoor horseback riding ring last month, a group of farmers got ready to test...
Articles by Michael Phillis, Melina Walling and Joshua A. Bickel

Robb Rynd and his brother grew up farming and wanted to do more of it outside their day jobs, so...

Across a wide swath of Texas, the inundated rivers that ravaged communities also tore through farms and ranches. In the...
Cindy Manley was a summer camp counselor in 1987 when a different devastating flood scarred the Texas Hill Country. The...
Toni Boucher threw up the first time she saw the charred remains of her home and neighborhood after this month’s...
A nasty dose of winter weather has pummeled much of the U.S. from Kansas to the East Coast, leaving many...
PORTER, Texas (AP) — Hurricanes cause trouble for everyone, but farmers have a whole other list of problems. Beryl has...

MAYFIELD, Ky. (AP) — Ashley Prince and her family have been chasing “normal” for years now. Two years ago, the...
The nation’s rivers and streams remain stubbornly polluted with nutrients that contaminate drinking water and fuel a gigantic dead zone...

Justin Ralph estimates he`s made about 200 trips delivering grain from the fields he farms with his brother and uncle...