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Updated at 6 p.m. June 24 with comments from a USDA local union presidentMore than 1,000 federal jobs will relocate to downtown St. Louis from a north…

EAST ALTON — Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue visited the Melvin Price Locks and Dam facility while in Illinois on Tuesday.He toured the newer…

About 6,000 nutrition professionals gathered at the America’s Center Convention Complex in St. Louis. They came from all over the country to sample ramen…

This week nearly 6,000 school nutrition professionals from across the country gathered in St. Louis to participate in a three-day conference that focuses…

The people in charge of deciding what’s on the menu at school cafeterias around the country will converge on St. Louis to consider how to make school…

Iron County is one of the state’s least healthy counties, according to the Missouri Health Atlas.So when Iron County Medical Center in Pilot Knob, about…

Sarah Schlafly isn’t squeamish when it comes to eating insects.For her, crickets are just “land shrimp.”The St. Louis-based entrepreneur co-founded Mighty…

A stand of trees in the Mark Twain National Forest in Missouri looks a little more sparse than what is often depicted in a forest. The trees are eight...

While much of the farm bill draft mirrors current law, there is a major change coming for farmers: Industrial hemp will be legalized. Forestry and food stamps became sticking points.

Students at Ferguson-Florissant schools will see more locally grown produce in their lunches this year, after winning a Farm to School grant from the U.S.…