Silos — tower-like structures on farms that hold fermented feed for livestock — have dotted the Midwestern landscape for 150 ...

The vast agricultural landscape of the U.S. Midwest, known as the Corn Belt, acts as a barrier for migrating landbirds, causing them to adjust their flight behaviors similar to when crossing natural ...

The Midwest has always been synonymous with amber waves of grain, endless fields of corn stretching to the horizon. Yet something troubling is happening beneath those wide skies. The iconic Corn Belt, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the United States, farmers have access to federally subsidized crop insurance — a backstop that affords them some peace of mind ...

Towering concrete silos once defined the American Corn Belt landscape. Modern farming has led to the decline of these ...

It’s been so dry in parts of Nebraska and South Dakota that corn plants are doing something truly strange: they’re not producing ears of grain. The stalks, which should be about 8 feet tall by this ...

The corn on Zack Smith’s 1,200 acres is not his future. Smith, a fifth-generation farmer working the land near Buffalo Center, Iowa, a town of almost 900 near the Minnesota border, knows the climate ...