In the most recent annual report released by the U.S. Waterborne Commerce Statistics Center, two Corn Belt Ports regions took ...

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 ...

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, ...

The southern third of the U.S. is likely to have a record-large crop coming since it’s been cool and wet across this area most of the summer. So far, we have mostly dry August weather as we start the ...

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 ...

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 present year experienced unique challenges and exceptional volatility, as drought has ravaged the American upper-Midwest corn-growing regions in early summer 2023. The U.S. National Oceanic and ...

An intense heat wave has descended upon a large portion of the Corn Belt as corn planting comes to a close. With temperatures racing past 90°F and sporadic rain over the past week, corn conditions in ...

Climate change is expanding the reach of aflatoxin, a chemical produced by a gray-green mold that infects corn crops and could threaten widespread damage to the country’s lucrative Corn Belt.