Farmers resilient as Kansas battles winter’s wrath
Kansas winter storms have shut down Tyson and Cargill facilities, with farmers and ranchers stepping out to help those stuck and stranded in the cold.
Kansas winter storms have shut down Tyson and Cargill facilities, with farmers and ranchers stepping out to help those stuck and stranded in the cold.
As temperatures decrease, cow nutritional requirements increase. Add in precipitation or wind, and requirements increase even more.
Two years of drought in the Midwest have caused the Mississippi River to drop to abnormally low levels, dredging projects underway hope to improve access.
Virginia’s fire season has been exacerbated by an ongoing drought in the state, with multiple fires burning across the Appalachian Mountains.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s plant hardiness zone map was updated last week for the first time in a decade, providing a look at warmer trends.
After last winter’s strange weather anomalies, the Farmers’ Almanac predicts a return to traditional winter weather, with cold temperatures and snow.
The 2024 Old Farmer’s Almanac predicts snow, seasonable cold, and all of good and bad of plenty of snow to come across North America.
After Hurricane Idalia’s landing, Georgia and Florida farmers are figuring out how to recover from crop damages left in the hurricane’s wake.
Last week, high humidity and low wind speeds on Kansas feedlots left some cattle fighting to stay alive, including near Muscotah.
A fifth of reported heat-related deaths between 2017 and 2022 were agricultural workers. Many people are calling for regulatory change.