Farmers and WWF are exploring specialty crops in the mid‑Mississippi Delta to create stronger markets, healthier soils, and ...

The Mississippi Delta, long marketed as one of the most fertile stretches of farmland in America, is now a place where ...

WWF’s Next California project shows how the Mississippi Delta could diversify U.S. agriculture and boost specialty crop production.

Rice farmers in the Mississippi Delta are staring at mountains of unsold grain and considering whether to let some of it rot. In Merigold, first-generation farmer Jack Westerfield, 37, is sitting on 2 ...

Jack Westerfield stood ankle deep atop 30 feet of unhusked rice, his gray T-shirt and jeans dusty with starchy powder. He sounded distressed.

Before near-record crop yields were harvested by U.S. farmers, the seed, plants and soil had received major scientific attention in laboratories located on an obscure country road in rural Washington ...

Hogs will eat up corn and peanuts that have just been planted, damaging acres of crops in a night. Some years the hog damage is worse than others but it has been a problem since his father started ...