Only eight souls live on the square-mile section where Jeff Hatfield farms south of Wichita: him, his wife, daughter, son-in-law, three grandchildren and a neighbor. The coronavirus pandemic still managed to find him. Not, thankfully, in the form of sickness. ...

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The Arkansas Plant Board fined a Missouri farmer $105,000 for using a banned herbicide on an Arkansas field, which is the largest such fine since the ban was enacted. The board concluded at a hearing Wednesday that Jeffrey Todd, of ...

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Across a vast expanse of the South stretching from Texas to Maryland, there are growing concerns for the cattle, cotton and corn amid a worsening drought fueled by this summer’s record high temperatures. One of the bullseyes marking the nation’s ...

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