agriculture

FOX’s “Farmer Wants a Wife” recently wrapped up its first season, and it got Harvest Public Media wondering what dating is like for farmers and ranchers. Turns out, dating in a small town isn’t always easy.

Last year more than 378,000 workers were authorized for H-2A visas, or temporary agriculture positions, according to figures from the U.S. Department of Labor. In 2012, it was less than a third of that.

The United Nations has declared 2023 the International Year of Millets — a type of small grain mostly grown in parts of Asia and Africa. The highly resilient and cost-friendly grains could make them the next crop for U.S. farmers in the midst of climate change.

House Bill 1962 allows 14 year-olds who live or work on a farm to apply for a Class D driver's license, but only drive under certain conditions.

Auctions — a marketplace for knick-knacks, farm land and everything in between — are often also gathering events for rural communities. That’s changing as more auctions go online.

Iowa is the latest state to legalize the sale of raw milk, which comes directly from cows without any pasteurization. While many Great Plains states allows such sales, some health experts caution there are health risks to drinking it.

A Guymon man is accused of writing a bogus check to buy more than one hundred cows and resell them.

Three companies are proposing pipelines across the Midwest that would carry carbon dioxide captured from ethanol plants to underground sequestration sites. The plan is to inject the CO2 deep into rock formations under Illinois and North Dakota, but some landowners are pushing back.

The trucking industry is estimated to have a shortage of nearly 80,000 drivers. While the problem is expected to get worse before it gets better, industry groups are trying to pave the way for more people to get a commercial driver’s license.

The Cherokee Nation is giving one-time $600 relief payments to farmworkers and meatpackers who worked during the pandemic through the Farm and Food Workers Relief Program.