Paul Black in the laboratory at Nebraska Innovation Campus. In a nondescript, off-white room on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Innovation Campus, Paul Black shows off what look like a series of ...

Larry Dallas's farm in Central Illinois's Douglas County is as flat as it gets. That's a good thing for planting straight ...

Spring fieldwork got off to a good start in many portions of the upper Midwest in mid-April; however, conditions have been much different in late April and early May. Frequent rainfall events and ...

This story was co-published with The Weather Channel as part of Collateral, a series on climate, data and science. As millions of acres of American farmland sat under historic floodwaters this spring, ...