Mark Seastrand has been around barley since he was a kid on the family farm. Now, the Sheyenne, N.D., farmer, who though the years has seen ups and downs for the crop, is relatively optimistic ...

Area farmers face a challenging transition from raising once-common six-row barley to the increasingly popular two-row variety. Beer makers now want the two-row kind, and barley growers are ...

Cornstalks are barely ankle-high when they should be towering six feet. Barley stalks have been decapitated by whipping hail storms. Huge gashes are torn into the soil where a planting machine got ...

Shigehisa had learned from her late father-in-law, who was a part-time farmer, that barley stalks can be made into drinking straws. When she was a child care worker about 20 years ago, she would ...