Findings from a new University of Delaware study indicate the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has overestimated the amount of chicken manure in nutrient runoff that originated with the Delmarva poultry industry and enters the Chesapeake Bay.

Big companies are trying to change the way U.S. farmers operate their businesses, but some things don’t need changing.

The American Farm Bureau and other plaintiffs filed for summary judgment Jan. 27 in a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over the agency’s total maximum daily load for the Chesapeake Bay watershed. 

Farmers and others who drive commercial motor vehicles will be subject to stricter rules governing the use of hand-held mobile phones starting Jan. 3, 2012.

Edd Jennings proved that farmers sometimes can prevail over eminent domain.

A website that celebrates U.S. farms operated by the same families for 100 years or more has launched at agricultureslastingheritage.org.