Last fall, for the second year in a row, Kenneth McAlister mowed down his entire cotton crop rather than sell it. Destroying the crop and collecting insurance money made more financial sense than ...

An odd remnant of the nation’s wartime past was revealed by chance in February in South Carolina, when a plowing farmer hit something on Johns Island near Charleston, officials say. The mysterious ...

After receiving a battery of briefs seeking its review, the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide the important issue of whether the Clean Water Act (CWA) regulates the farming practice known as ...

Roughly 2.5 million people left the Dust Bowl states (Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, and Nebraska) during the 1930s. It ...

Every week we publish a historic photo highlighting a story from Naperville’s past from the history archives of Naper Settlement. The Wheatland Plowing Match Association was formed in 1877 as a nod to ...