Minutes before the start of the penalty phase of his trial, a farmer facing nearly $3 million in fines for plowing a Tehama County field agreed to settle his case Tuesday in federal court. The ...

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 California farmer wheat farmer faces up to $35 million in fines for violating federal wetlands regulations. But it's unclear whether the law in question was supposed to apply to him, and the rules ...

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 ...