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A Southwest Michigan farmer was sentenced to prison after cheating the federal government out of almost $525,000 through fraudulent crop insurance claims and misuse of marketing assistance loans.
There are almost one million female farmers in the U.S., and Michigan alone saw a 17.6 percent increase in women in agriculture between 2007 and 2014.
The dollar value of dairy product exports to China skyrocketed 688 percent while prepared fruit and vegetable exports rose almost four-fold.
This new Food Fix podcast tackles food and philosophy, a theme in Paul Thompson’s latest book: From Field to Fork.
Current State discusses recent environmental stories with commentator Gary Wilson.
Digging the right kind of ditch to drain farm fields can improve water quality hundreds of miles away.
They boost crops like corn but have some not so great side effects.
Birds stand to gain valuable grassland habitat if the appetite to balance conservation and biofuel production continues gaining support in scientific circles.
The value prairie grasses bring to bees helps make such plants more attractive for biofuels production.