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The booming real estate market has driven up prices to the point where Rhode Island now has the most expensive farmland in the country. The state is trying to preserve some land for farmers.

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Rhode Island Bets The Farm That Cheap Land Will Help Local Agriculture Thrive

5:37pm July 03, 2018

by Stephanie Leydon

The state is about to offer bargain basement prices on something that's become increasingly unaffordable: real estate. But the land must be used for farming only.

The Diamond B Ranch, north of Cheyenne, Wyo., is no longer a working property. It's been bought and subdivided by a realty company.

Rural Lands At Risk As Ranchers Prepare For Retirement

5:49pm April 25, 2018

by Cooper McKim

Universities and ranch land advocates are offering estate planning classes to ranchers with a goal of saving their land from redevelopment.

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A field of recently-sprouted grain sorghum in Lyford, Texas, shown in a photograph from May 2013. In the latest salvo of a growing trade war, China announced a temporary 179 percent tariff on the U.S. crop.

In Latest Trade Salvo, China Imposes 179 Percent Tariff On U.S. Sorghum

8:05am April 17, 2018

China's Commerce Ministry says the preliminary finding of a two-month anti-dumping investigation found that imports of the U.S. cereal grain have been unfairly subsidized.

Deb Gangwish inspects soil on her farm near Shelton, Neb.

A Grass-Roots Movement For Healthy Soil Spreads Among Farmers

5:20pm April 09, 2018

by Dan Charles

America's farmers are digging soil like never before. A movement for "regenerative agriculture" is dedicated to building healthier soil and could even lead to a new eco-label on food.

Hog farmers worry that they will pay a hefty price if there's a trade war with China.

U.S. Farmers Likely To Be Among Hardest Hit By Chinese Tariffs

1:31pm April 05, 2018

by Frank Morris

China's retaliatory tariffs would hit farmers, who rely on exports to keep their business models going, harder than any other group, especially those raising hogs, nuts and fruit.

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Kansas farmer Derek Klingenberg is using satellite images to capture cow art from space.

Have You Herd? Farmer Writes A Memoo Using Cows And Satellite Imagery

10:49am March 21, 2018

by Ben Kuebrich

A Kansas farmer is becoming somewhat of a celebrity for making agriculture-themed pop-music parodies and calling his cattle by playing Lorde's "Royals" on the trombone. Now, he's making space cow art.

In 2012, record heat throughout the U.S. farm belt curtailed crop production like this rotting corn on a farm in Bruceville, Ind. Farmers are now worried that the lack of rainfall this year could start the cycle over again.

Widespread Drought Across U.S. Stokes Fears About A Repeat Of 2012's Wrath

1:57pm March 01, 2018

by Madelyn Beck

If rainfall doesn't come soon, it could cost billions in devastation — a difficult fallout considering the USDA expects farmers' incomes to hit a 12-year low even if crop yields stay high.

The Theewaterskloof Dam is at just 13 percent capacity and is full of sand and dried tree trunks. About 85 miles north of Cape Town, the dam supplies both city and local farmers.

South African Farmers Lose Crops And Workers Amid Crippling Drought

10:15am February 04, 2018

by Peter Granitz

Agriculture generates hundreds of millions of dollars per year for this nation. But with water being diverted to Cape Town and expected to run out in April, farmers are preparing for the worst.

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A head of poor-quality malt barley taken directly from a field in Power, Mont. Heat and a lack of water resulted in small and light kernels. Grain rejected for malt barley often ends up as animal feed.

Montana Barley Fields Become Front Line For Climate Change And Beer

10:02am January 11, 2018

by Jackson Mitchell

Barley, the "king of malt," needs a precise recipe of water and sunshine to thrive — too much of either will cause it to wither and die. And amid a changing climate, that's exactly what's happening.

President Trump speaks at the American Farm Bureau Federation's annual convention in Nashville, Tenn., on Monday.

Trump Plants Seeds Of Rural Revival With Friendly Farm Audience

6:24pm January 08, 2018

by Scott Horsley

President Trump unveiled a task force report on reviving rural prosperity at a Farm Bureau convention in Nashville, Tenn., Monday. Rural voters were a key part of Trump's winning election coalition.