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Chris Cates, who raises livestock in Rising Fawn, Ga., is appalled by the farm bill, which finally passed the House on Wednesday and is expected to sail through the Senate. In a petition he posted earlier at Change.org, Cates complained that the “enormous amount of amendments and taxpayer funded special interests and corporate handouts that have been attached to the Farm Bill are quite disgusting to say the least.”

While the product from Harley Farms Goat Dairy might sound strange those who grew up buying paint from the hardware store, it would make much more sense to anyone living before the...

If there is one word to describe the nearly 1000-page bill worth nearly a trillion dollars, it’s compromise. No one is entirely happy with the results, but just about everybody is happy to have results.

Think nothing is as emblematic of this country as apple pie? Or maybe baseball is the ne plus ultra of the American dream? You’ve clearly never seen a tractor square dance.

As small and innocent as he may seem, the light brown baby bull is living evidence of a movement to rid the American bison of both disease and genetic cattle traits. The hope among...

The teeny, tiny quail never found it’s way into the U.S. dinnertime oeuvre. But all that might change.

Farmer’s Fridge vending machines dispense fresh salads and snacks, not junk food, to hungry Chicagoans at the push of a button.

The fight between homeowners and farmers over stinky farms is driving new science and techniques aimed at taming the most eye-watering emanations.

It’s no secret I was not exactly an overnight success at pack-burro racing. But perhaps the better-kept secret is the sport itself – one of the planet’s most obscure and difficult tests of man and beast.