Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Machinery harvests corn in Scotts Bluff County, Neb., last year. Low prices for row crops and high costs for fertilizer are ...

Farmworkers take a quick break in a field in southeastern Iowa in late July. While this summer has not been especially hot in Iowa, the crew leader (standing) said, he's noticed over the years summers ...

USA, — Global clashes and trade wars hammered Midwestern states’ agricultural economies early this year, while a continuing boom in Southeastern states’ housing and tech jobs kept their economies ...

Midwest farmworkers struggle with extreme heat and almost no regulatory safeguards A fifth of reported heat-related deaths between 2017 and 2022 were agricultural workers, according to federal data.