Today’s beef prices are not being determined by competitive market forces.

As politicians continue to bicker and blame during the government shutdown, fields across the Midwest are a flurry of harvest activity.

One of the oldest sayings in poker warns that if you’re in a game for 20 minutes and haven’t figured out who’s the patsy — the player most likely to be the game’s biggest loser — you’re the patsy.

Reporting on something doesn’t mean endorsing it. It means recognizing that the issue exists, that it matters and that the audience deserves to understand all sides of it — even the ones that make us uncomfortable.

This federal shutdown could not come at a worse time for the farm economy.

Cuts to food assistance, scheduled to begin Nov. 1, will hit the nation’s poor hard and its rural poor the hardest.

It might not come up much at the grain elevator or after church potlucks, but it is something all of us who live out here where the pavement ends need to embrace: cybersecurity.

Now is the time to rebuild our U.S. cattle industry — and a new tariff rate quotas system can help us do it.

History isn’t just a record of what once was. It’s a guide for what could be, if we fail to learn from the mistakes of those who came before us.