Syngenta walked away with nearly $1 million in damages last week from a U.S. District Court after a significant ruling on a patent infringement suit brought against pesticide maker Willowood. A jury granted a major victory to Syngenta Crop Protection LLC and its customers Thursday after finding that Willowood infringed a patent relating to the […]

The Michigan farmer that sued the city of East Lansing after he was excluded from this year’s farmer’s market due to his views on same-sex marriage is back.

Japan is expanding market access for U.S. chipping potatoes, resuming imports from Idaho for the first time in 11 years. “The United States has a reputation around the globe for growing high-quality potatoes,” said U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue. “We are committed to opening up new market opportunities for U.S. producers, and I am […]

With food manufacturers increasingly utilizing “free from” labels, America’s dairy farmers have launched the “Peel Back the Label” campaign.

Soybean farmers could save millions after a breakthrough discovery from a collaborative project between Purdue University and Dow AgroSciences. Researchers have discovered a novel soybean gene that provides resistance to a devastating and costly fungal disease. The team of Dow AgroSciences and Purdue researchers screened a wide variety of soybean genetic material using a number […]

Wildfires have ravaged states in the west this summer and now wildland fire suppression costs for the fiscal year have exceeded $2 billion.

A Kansas farmer, whose inspirational story about finding a kidney donation from a Mississippi man who asked to hunt on his property, has passed away. Gil Alexander farmed a large swath of land in Western Kansas originally homesteaded by his great-grandfather Samuel Garland, who was born into slavery in Mississippi and later served as a […]

Iowa State University researchers may have found a way to reduce the stank from livestock facilities … black light. Jacek Koziel, an associate professor of agricultural and biosystems engineering, and his team are using black light to help neutralize the volatile components that make up objectionable odors. Shined on surfaces coated with a thin layer […]

Since 2014, 33 Culver’s “Thank You Farmers” corn mazes have been grown in gratitude for the hard work of America’s farmers.