Gene Gruber has to stop and think when asked how many U.S. plowing championships have been won by members of his family, a three-generation dynasty. "Seventeen. It's been 17," he says after a few ...

Traditional plow-based agricultural methods and the need to feed a rapidly growing world population are combining to deplete the Earth's soil supply, a new study confirms. In fact, long-established ...

A surge in prices is convincing some growers to plant more cotton in the San Joaquin Valley, but some cotton farmers have been finding it difficult to meet the plow-down date. All cotton growers must ...

A farmer faces trial in federal court this summer and a $2.8 million fine for failing to get a permit to plow his field and plant wheat in Tehama County. A lawyer for Duarte Nursery said the case is ...

It’s been six years since John Duarte set out to grow wheat on 500 acres south of Red Bluff. But no crop has been harvested since he planted wheat in 2012. Only weeds grow on the 450-acre plot ...