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Small towns far from big cities rely upon federal grants to help them, but numerous definitions of what the government considers rural make that complicated.

Critics say a new federal law on labeling food products with information about whether they include genetically modified ingredients is clunky and ineffective.

As the number of coyotes in Kansas grows, hunting contests have sprung up as a way to remove potential threats to livestock. But the resilient canine keeps finding ways to survive, no matter what humans throw at it.

Along with $1 billion in American Rescue Plan money to help small processors expand, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is revising regulations intended to protect against monopoly behavior. And it's setting up an online portal to field complaints.

A group of scientists, including Iowa State University researchers, used chemistry to convert the powerful greenhouse gas methane into safer chemicals that serve as the base for some plastics.

Tyson Foods plans to spend $1.3 billion over the next three years to automate parts of its processing, largely chicken deboning lines. That'll eliminate a little over 3,000 roles.

Oklahoma is one of many states that has a law requiring meat alternatives to be clearly labeled as plant-based.

A new U.S. Department of Agriculture report found the percentage of farms that are small and family owned remained unchanged from 2011 to 2020, holding steady at 89% of all farms.

Two proposals for carbon pipelines throughout the Midwest would pipe carbon dioxide from dozens of ethanol plants to rock formations in North Dakota and Illinois where the CO2 would be buried deep underground. Rock formations like the Mount Simon Sandstone offer the ability to bury the carbon for “eons of time” more than a mile below the surface.

Communities across the Midwest are tempting new residents with cash and free land, with mixed success and some lessons learned.