WASHINGTON -- Twenty-two new House members are likely to take an interest in agriculture or rural issues because they come from rural districts or have farm backgrounds, according to biographies of ...

Mauch, a rookie right guard for the Tampa Buccaneers, grew up sweeping the shop, driving tractors and semi-tractor trailers and throwing seed sacks on his parent’s farm near Hankinson, North Dakota.

Kwame Holman reports on the farm legislation newly approved by the Senate. Congress adopted a controversial free market approach to farm policy in 1996. Today the Senate prepared to abandon that ...

Dec. 20—While Camron Knott grew up with a farm background, he doesn't personally consider himself a farmer. "...We did a couple different things but we always did tobacco," Knott said. "But there was ...