Billboard companies spiked the cancer ad. But Citizens Gas or WellPoint might have gotten a different result.

Gary Truitt says Indianapolis people are mystified by the polite youth in blue jackets and regard them as "hayseed farm kids come to the big city to party."

Now scientists are finding genetically modified insect killer in Indiana water.

How much longer until even Pennsylvania is eclipsed?

Cultivian Ventures began investing in a no-man's land just as the financial crisis ramped up, and now it's already considering a second fund.

Prime farmland is disappearing fast, Indiana University researcher warns.

If it isn’t huge methane bubbles in manure pits, its drug suspects actually hiding in the stuff.

How will the state stand up against booming—and highly innovative—emerging nations?

Powerful new lobbies are fighting over the future of the controversial industry. Who are they appealing to? You.

Like cattle, hogs and other big farm animals? You’re now considered a diversity candidate.

Want to start a fight? Don’t say “health care reform.” Try “raw milk."

Dow AgroSciences could boost its market share in genetically altered corn almost overnight by inventing a perennial corn. But investors might not have the patience.

Paul Dieterlen is the unusual veterinarian who doesnâ??t have a pet. But Dieterlen, who retired recently from overseeing the meat-inspection division within the State Board of Animal Health, says that if he had one, it would be a horse. So it...

The organic food industry is in an uproar over concerns that organic fertilizer may have been spiked with synthetic versions. Last month, FBI and federal agriculture officials searched a California organic fertilizer factory, but wouldnâ??t disclose their motive. The...

Drive through areas hit by the deluge of rain in the past few days and youâ??ll see mind-boggling soil erosion. At the base of myriad fields lie deltas of sediment washed downhill from elsewhere in their respective watersheds. Not only was...

It isn’t easy providing tomatoes to the nation. Consider the ongoing struggle at Red Gold Inc. The state’s largest food processor, which is headquartered north of Anderson in Orestes, was all but locked out of buying tomatoes from Indiana growers under...

In his five years as executive director of the United Nations World Food Programme, Jim Morris saw global hunger from an uncomfortably close vantage point. So, one might expect him to criticize the idea of turning corn and soybeans into alternative...

You probably arenâ??t begrudging farmers and others for the record farmland prices theyâ??re enjoying. But those prices wouldnâ??t be so high if the ethanol plants popping up across Indiana and elsewhere in the Midwest werenâ??t using so much corn. Now weâ??re...