In a recent multi-stop visit around the Midwest, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue told a group of Indiana farmers it will take billions of dollars on top of what has already been distributed.

Farmers' confidence in their operations held steady in the latest monthly survey from Purdue University.

The Fishers Agri-Park is now open to the public, and its produce will be free to the community.

State and federal officials are urging residents not to plant the seeds or throw them away where they could grow in landfills.

The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union and local unions representing 10 plants in Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi and Missouri joined with nonprofit consumer advocacy group Public Citizen to file the lawsuit in federal court in Washington, D.C.

Honey beekeepers in the U.S. lost about 22 percent of their colonies this past winter. While that might not sound good, the Bee Informed Partnership says thats the second lowest winter colony loss its seen in more than a decade.

Purdue University's Ag Economy Barometer showed farmers feel better about their prospects in June than they did earlier this year.

The national Ag Economy Barometer conducted by researchers at Purdue University shows more than a quarter of farmers say they will be looking to reduce farmland rental prices.

Meat processing plants across the Midwest have become hotspots for COVID-19. Now rural health workers are trying to keep track of workers who get sick -- and those exposed to the disease. But that's challenging because many workers are immigrants or refugees, and theres a language barrier.

The bill would help farmers and foresters who do these practices sell carbon credits on the market. Polluting companies could then buy those credits as a way of offsetting their own emissions.