Pacific Legal Foundation said this morning there was a settlement in the case of John Duarte, the nursery owner who was facing fines after having his field near Red Bluff plowed. Details of the $1.1 ...

A California farmer agreed Tuesday to pay $1.1 million for plowing federally protected wetlands on his wheat field, according to the Department of Justice. This ends a five-year legal battle over the ...

UPDATE, 1:36 P.M.: A California farmer has agreed to pay $1.1 million in penalties for violating the Clean Water Act. A federal court last year found John Duarte with Duarte Nursery liable for ...

Harvest season often brings challenges, and Mychal Wilmes recalls some his family faced, from a harvest that stretched into November to plowing a field in the chill of night to get it done by winter.

Traditional plow-based agricultural methods and the need to feed a rapidly growing world population are combining to deplete the Earth's soil supply, a new study confirms. In fact, long-established ...

Gene Gruber has to stop and think when asked how many U.S. plowing championships have been won by members of his family, a three-generation dynasty. "Seventeen. It's been 17," he says after a few ...