State livestock associations want easier access to idle acres as tight forage supplies limit herd expansion opportunities.

CANTON, Minn. — Over 30 years ago, Vance and Bonnie Haugen drove onto a foreclosed farm in southeastern Minnesota and saw not what was there, which was scraped-down corn and soybean ground, but what ...

From a distance, the small solar farm in central Tennessee looks like others that now dot rural America, with row upon row of black panels absorbing the sun’s rays to generate electricity. But beneath ...

Multi-state study challenges conventional wisdom on livestock management while demonstrating gains in both ecological health ...

Grazing is regarded as one particularly beneficial practice to biodiversity on farms, especially if it is practiced on natural pastures in traditional ways. The large-scale study, which surveyed over ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock A Tennessee farm is testing an interesting idea: cattle grazing beneath solar panels. If it works on a larger ...

CHRISTIANA, Tenn. (AP) — A solar farm in Christiana, Tennessee, is pioneering the integration of cattle grazing beneath solar panels, a concept known as agrivoltaics. Owned by Silicon Ranch, the ...

BRAINERD — Judy and Harry Worm, whose farm is east of Brainerd, have joined the number of producers becoming water quality certified through the Minnesota Agricultural Water Quality Certification ...