Rachel Woolf / Rachel Woolf for NPR In a chilly storeroom piled high with fall produce, Jimena Cordero is chopping up vegetables and fanning them out onto trays. Cordero is the farm manager at Ollin ...

Will the coming farm bill support big farms or small? That was a question that repeatedly came up during a Senate Agriculture committee hearing Thursday featuring Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shae, left, and Anna Pesek pose with calves on their Over the Moon farm in Iowa. The farm was one of thousands benefiting from a ...

Local food banks are about to lose a key source of fresh, local produce after the Department of Agriculture ended the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program or LFPA. The program ...

Big lobby interests like John Deere, the National Farmer's Union and large oil refiners are working together to expand ethanol mandates in the farm bill.

When people are asked what a “small farm” is, they may base their answer on the number of acres or number of animals a farm has – and they often assume that there aren’t many of them. However, small, ...

Amidst the annual holiday boom in turkey sales, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is proposing a new rule to reduce salmonella in poultry. That's a laudable goal, but the actual ...

Inga visits small farms and makers finding new ways to preserve traditional practices. Host Inga Witscher takes a journey around the state to visit small farms and specialty makers who are finding new ...

Iowa farm size has changed between 2011-2021, according to a report from Iowa State University Extension and Outreach. The number of large commercial farms has doubled in that time period, while the ...

Anna Pesek saw a federal program supporting local food purchases as much more than a boost to her Iowa pork and poultry farm. The U.S. Department of Agriculture grant program that allowed schools and ...

Shae, left, and Anna Pesek pose with calves on their Over the Moon farm in Iowa. The farm was one of thousands benefiting from a local food program recently cut by the Trump administration. (Photo by ...