Commodities

Is the country careening towards summertime with a shortage of onions? The National Onion Association certainly seems to think so. The Greeley, Colorado...

Plant breeder Jessica Barb is on a mission to improve how sunflowers self-pollinate, a trait that'll be increasingly important to farmers are wild bee...

A western Kansas farming family struggling to keep their fifth-generation farming operation afloat amidst a slump in corn, wheat and other commodity…

Following months and months of incredibly dry weather, the good news is that much of Kansas finally got some badly needed rain, ice and snow several weeks…

Farmers across the Midwest are trying to figure out how to get by at a time when expected prices for commodities from corn, to wheat, to cattle, to hogs…

From Harvest Public Media:At the grocery store, processed foods like cereal, crackers and candy usually maintain the same price for a long time, and inch…

On a frigid winter day, Chad Hart tries to warm his economics students at Iowa State University to the idea of managing some of the risk of farming using…

Farmers are the bedrock of the agricultural commodities markets – after all, they make the products that are traded there.But after the October bankruptcy…