Dix and Ruth Roberts continue to run their Utah farm in their 80s with their family. They still sell produce at two markets a week and help out around the farm. Though they could retire and travel, ...

BISMARCK — Sarah Vogel was uniquely prepared to have a leading part in the 1980s farm crisis. A granddaughter of Frank A. Vogel, chief adviser to Bill Langer, the famous Nonpartisan League party ...

Long ago — when the bulk of the southern Minnesota market valued good farmland at less than $2,000 per acre — my brother faced a difficult decision. A parcel went on the market for $1,600 an acre. A ...

Steve Robisky, a farmer near Cedar Falls, on Wednesday sows seeds for native prairie plants into a field for a customer in rural Cedar Falls. He started farming 21 years ago and enjoys sustainable ...

My favorite interview last week was 90-year-old Illinois farmboy John “Jack” Block. Block was former President Ronald Reagan’s Secretary of Agriculture from 1981 until 1986, the worst of the domestic ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Dix Roberts, 88, and Ruth Roberts, 82, a married couple who run Roberts Family Farms in Utah with their family, including their son, Tyson, who ...