Recent trade policies have imposed tariffs to boost U.S. production, but Midwest agriculture has suffered, losing ground to competitors like Brazil in soybeans and pork. Farmers urge the new administration to prioritize free trade and stable agreements.
I stumbled across a statistical tidbit the other day that probably will surprise many people.
U.S. Census Bureau figures show that between 1900 and 2000, the state that grew
The death Sunday of Robert Dole was a potent reminder of what we have lost as a nation.
Another member of the Greatest Generation has left us — another of those
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Efficient irrigation may produce more crops, but it doesn’t appear to preserve groundwater, according to a federal report
The current large farms, utilizing far fewer farms than in the past has created population loss that threatens scores of small towns that sprouted on the prairie in a different time, when larger numbers of small farmers depended on them.
The exemption leaves untaxed for life nearly $630 million in Kansas wind farm equipment, according to the Kansas Department of Revenue. If it were on the tax rolls, that equipment would generate around $82 million a year in additional revenue for the 24 rural counties with wind farms.
Women who decide to seek an abortion rarely make that decision after the first 20 weeks of pregnancy, according to an international research institute on reproductive health. But a legislative proposal in Iowa uses scientifically debatable assertions about fetal pain to target those few women. The p
