Long before New Mexico was known for signature crops like green chile, for centuries one of the primary foods came on a cob. Corn not only helped pueblo Indians native to the state sustain their lives ...

A new grant from the Native American Agriculture Fund will allow the American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture to develop a new Purple Plow Challenge focused on Native American student interests ...

Native American farmers in the southwestern United States have long deployed weather-adaptive techniques to grow crops such as corn and beans in high-desert environments only occasionally visited by ...

Prior to the arrival of the first European settlers early in the 17th Century, an estimated 50 million Native Americans tilled the land in the area that became the United States, gathered food in the ...

Hundreds of acres in Michigan are covered in parallel rows of earth that are the remains of an ancient Native American agricultural system. The... A surprise find in Michigan shows the extent of ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has named the members of a council created in a 2010 settlement to ensure Native American farmers and ranchers have access to Department of ...

Native American farmers who grow specialty crops like blackberries, sweet potatoes and tomatillos can now apply for one-time bridge payments from the United States Department of Agriculture to assist ...

Archeologists studying a forested area in northern Michigan say they've uncovered what is likely the largest intact remains of an ancient Native American agricultural site in the eastern half of the ...