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Major portions of rural America have no access to broadband. Fewer than one in five Americans (17 percent) can0t access what the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) defines as broadband, but that level is three times higher 0 a whopping 53% -- when

If there is one place that, in recent years, overwhelmingly demonstrates the need and importance of U.S. farm policy, it is California. For the past four years, this top agricultural producing state has experienced record drought conditions and for farmers like my husba

A report released yesterday in the journal Scientific Reports found substantial probability that the eastern population of monarch butterfly could be wiped out in a quasi-extinction event in the next two decades.

In a down commodity market, achieving higher yields from the same or fewer inputs is driving American farmers to be more precise than ever in how they manage their acres. U.S. farmers have always adapted and innovated, but now there is a significant transformation

Agriculture not only provides the goods we consume on a daily basis, but provides the livelihood for thousands of hard-working individuals

One of the most valuable commodities cultivated by farmers today is the information their tractors, harvesters and aerial drones collect. For farmers, this data can be used to improve efficiency, simplify paperwork and potentially generate additional dollars to

Cattlemen and women can rest a little easier as they move into the New Year knowing several policy victories were contained in the Omnibus Appropriations bill

Recently, a bipartisan majority of U.S. Senators voted to close the floodgates on Washington bureaucrats determined to sink farmers, homebuilders, and manufacturers across the nation in legal uncertainty, compliance burdens, and increased costs

This isn t a perfect program, but it does offer opportunities to maintain farmland and forestland through conservation easements

As we consider the fundamentals of global food security during this yearPs conference, I think about the valuable lessons IPve learned about sustainable development from farmers around the world