SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. – The Santa Barbara County Agricultural Commissioner's Office released the 2024 Crop and Livestock Production Report, a comprehensive summary of the county's leading ...

The global production of six major food and animal feed crops (corn, wheat, rice, soybeans, cassava, and millet) has dramatically increased and far outpaced world population growth between 1961 and ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. (SANTA BARBARA, Calif.) – The Santa Barbara County’s Agricultural Commissioner’s Office released its 2024 Crop & Livestock ...

2024 was a good year for agriculture in Tulare County, or at least it was better than 2023. Tulare County’s total gross agricultural production value for 2024 was $8,344,115,750, an increase of ...

The federal government’s continued shutdown is no longer just a Washington standoff — it’s becoming a real-world problem for farmers and ranchers. As the days drag on without resolution, three Kansas ...

The October World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report shed light on wider production swings in a few smaller crops, including canola and sunflowers, and provided new insight into ...

A partially developed ear of corn is no more than 4 inches long. Drying down in a field near Stockwell in Tippecanoe County, it symbolizes what the 2012 drought means to Indiana farmers - a small ...

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - After sluggish harvests last year, Indiana farmers could produce record or near-record grain crops this year, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture report released Friday ...