Harvest Public Media

Rod Christen and his sister Kay farm corn, soybeans, and wheat on the family’s land near the small town of Steinauer in southeast Nebraska, but their main crop is grass.

The farm bill expired at midnight on Monday, leaving farmers and ranchers across the country guessing at what federal farm policy will look like when they next put their crops in the ground.

On a hot day in late August, Kevin Bien stood amid the shade of a large gray piece of farm equipment. 

Hog producers and their veterinarians have a new tool to help fight a virus that has the potential to kill entire litters of piglets.

Farmers in the Midwest were devastated by a crippling drought in 2012, and the federal crop insurance program paid out a record $17.3 billion.