Author – The Durango Herald

Consumer demand fuels shift to cage-free eggs

WAUKON, Iowa – Alert and curious, hundreds of hens with bright red crowns and faces strolled out of a large chicken house midmorning into the fresh air and a fenced pasture amid rolling fiel...

DATE: Nov 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Food

Bird flu causes egg shortage, record prices

Outbreak could cost taxpayers $400 million

DATE: May 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: Food

Lawsuits put livestock farming in the cross hairs

Water, air-quality concerns fuel legal battles

DATE: Feb 17, 2015 | CATEGORY: Business

Farm income expected to fall 21% this year

DES MOINES, Iowa – Net income for farmers is expected to fall by nearly 32 percent this year as corn and soybean prices remain low and expenses creep higher, the U.S. Department of Agricultu...

DATE: Feb 14, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

U.S. piano stores hit sour note

Owners closing shops as fewer children take lessons

DATE: Jan 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Summer has been good to cornfields

Genetic modifications also create conditions for rise in yields

DATE: Aug 9, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Ag-gag laws are facing federal court challenges

Rules prohibit secret filming documenting abuse of animals

DATE: Jul 26, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Scientist gets World Food Prize for wheat advances

DES MOINES, Iowa – A crop scientist credited with developing hundreds of varieties of disease-resistant wheat adaptable to many climates and difficult growing conditions has been named as th...

DATE: Jun 24, 2014 | CATEGORY: Food

Urban hens often abandoned once their egg-laying ends

DES MOINES, Iowa – Five chickens live in artist Alicia Rheal’s backyard in Madison, Wis., and when they age out of laying eggs, they may become chicken dinner. “We get egg-layers ...

DATE: Nov 16, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Rain forces tough choices decisions in Midwest

DES MOINES, Iowa  Its decision time for many Midwest corn farmers stuck in one of the wettest springs ever: Plant late in ground thats been too wet, replant corn in muddy f...

DATE: Jun 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Business

Prices rise, links go under plow

Par for the course, farmers seek to work where sportsmenplayed for decades

DATE: May 22, 2013 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Midwest drought eases as fields turn to mud

Latest problem: It’s too wet, cold

DATE: Apr 25, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World