Eligible farmers must live in Carter, Cocke, Greene, Hamblen, Hawkins, Johnson, Unicoi or Washington counties.

The Tennessee Department of Agriculture received over $880,000 from the USDA to help expand the state's hardwood industry ...

RIDGETOP, Tenn. (WKRN) – Although there was a short-lived dry spell for some areas, the weather has been cooperating for farmers. So far this year, Middle Tennessee vegetable crops have been doing ...

The program reimburses approved applicants at a 50% cost share of eligible expenses, up to program-specific maximums.” ...

Soybeans are Tennessee’s number one crop, and China has been, by far, their number one buyer. But that changed when Trump announced heavy tariffs against them earlier this year — right in the middle ...

After two years of high costs and heavy losses, even $12 billion in federal relief may not be enough to keep some farmers afloat.

John Holler checks the fences at his Bee Creek Farm in Crossville. (Photo: Anne Braly) Agriculture, long a dominant industry in Tennessee, remains one in the 21st century, contributing about $89 ...

America’s farmers have always been among the most productive and resilient in the world. Through hard work and generations of experience, farmers provide the food and fiber that power our economy and ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Due to new rules about chemicals in hemp plants, some Tennessee hemp farmers worry they'll have to destroy some of their crops. The rules mean any crop with a number higher ...

Tennessee farmers are doing what it takes to protect their spring crops from the recent dramatic swings in temperatures. With highs in the 80s to overnight lows near freezing, sensitive crops like ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Farming is a way of life in Tennessee passed down from generation to generation. “The founders of our state, in 1786, understood that Tennessee was going to be a powerhouse ...

Starting Jan. 1, 2026, the regulation of Tennessee’s Hemp-Derived Cannabinoid (HDC) program will move from the Department of ...