Last fall, Midwest Messenger readers met Henry Dawson, a teen from Doniphan, Nebraska, who had a passion for finding something old and learning how to fix it.

Harvest brings the unmistakable sound of a combine. Of all the machines on a farm, the combine is not only one of the most important, but its sounds are the ...

Oilseed prices have continued to be strained by the Chinese tariffs on Canadian canola, the lack of any soybean exports to China, and from the continued uncertainty regarding biofuels. Growers are ...

A new study is providing long-awaited answers for commercial beekeepers who faced record honeybee colony losses last winter. But the findings also raise new alarms for producers in South Dakota and ...

The following was written by Tony Mensing, Iowa State University Extension field agricultural engineer, and Dirk Maier, director of the ISU Feed Mill and Grain Science Complex, for ...

I write this to my readers and my friends. You are my friends. If we lived closer and moved in the same circles, I believe an affinity would draw us to each other to share meaningful experiences from ...

Canola harvest is underway, although drizzling rain in the north central and southeastern parts of the state have kept farmers out of the fields for a few days. In addition, ...

Denise Venner remembers the 1985 inaugural Farm Aid benefit concert taking place in Champaign, Illinois. Four decades later, Denise found herself at Farm Aid 40 in Minneapolis.

Conflict can often be one of the toughest barriers when making plans for the next generation.

When you think of a township official, you might picture someone who quietly tends to business at the local level. But in ...

Farmers in southeast Nebraska warned their congressman Sept. 5 that the cost of President Donald Trump's trade war is nearing ...

Tools like futures contracts or hedge-to-arrive agreements help farmers plan ahead and protect their profits. Storing grain ...