After carefully choosing the freshest produce at the market, people face even more choices with vegetables, fruit, meat and dairy products at home that can help prolong freshness, minimize waste and prevent foodborne illnesses.

A small family business saved $60,000 annually by switching to Indiana Farm Bureau Health Plans.

As December draws near, one thing is certain in workplaces across every rural county: the season of feasting is in full swing.

I like Thanksgiving because I like the USA. I like all the opportunities we have only in this great country and nowhere else in the world.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins touted the Trump administration’s milk action plan to support American dairy farmers at the National Milk Producers Federation’s annual meeting.

In people with familial high cholesterol and extraordinarily high levels of cholesterol, combination therapy with two or three drugs — a statin, a PCSK9i and sometimes ezetimibe — is frequently used.

Powerful anti-vaccine advocates and people selling potentially harmful goods such as raw milk are profiting from the push to write anti-science policies into law across the United States.

The treatment for ovarian cancer has changed dramatically in the past few years.

The past few years have tested even the most seasoned farmers. Facing rising input costs, unpredictable market access and many other challenges, farmers and ranchers are working harder while margins grow thinner.

As the fall harvest season comes to a close, farmers are carefully studying their balance sheets.

The amount of absolute risk reduction from a statin in a person without known heart disease depends mostly on a person’s absolute risk of heart disease.

Indiana Farm Bureau announced its policy priorities for the 2026 legislative session, with a focus on protecting farms.

Kyle Martz knew as an eighth-grade student that he was going to join the Army and serve his country.

Most experts recommend an evaluation with an endoscopy and a laryngoscopy for people with a persistent globus sensation.

As part of the dairy checkoff’s evolving youth strategy, GENYOUth announced that it is forming a strategic affiliation with Action for Healthy Kids, creating the nation’s largest in-school wellness organization.

Induction cooking stoves use powerful electromagnets to create a magnetic field — which can “tell” your pacemaker to turn itself off or change its mode of activity.

Some of us have gotten to the age where we wonder if adopting a pet would be the right thing to do, even though we know that having a pet would help with feelings of loneliness.

This month of October marks the 40th anniversary of Breast Cancer Awareness Month — four decades of pink ribbons, awareness campaigns, survivor stories and a growing sense of community around a disease that affects millions every year.

Don’t let your Halloween pumpkin haunt the landfill this November.

A suite of action aimed at strengthening the U.S. beef industry that reinforces and prioritizes the rancher’s role in national security was announced Oct. 22.

Chikungunya may not sound like a real medical condition, but it is a viral disease that was first found in West Africa. It is spread mainly through mosquitoes.

If you’re having trouble sleeping, if you’re stressed all the time, if you’re afraid or angry — all these things can be a result of watching too much of the news.

Gynecomastia is the growth of male breast tissue, specifically when not due to breast cancer. It can happen during puberty in healthy males, but it is a common side effect of androgen deprivation therapy for prostate cancer.

Farm income concerns along with state and federal issues continue to be a focus of Illinois Farm Bureau.

Cuts to food assistance, scheduled to begin Nov. 1, will hit the nation’s poor hard and its rural poor the hardest.

There’s strong evidence that certain diets — like the Mediterranean diet — can help improve cognitive function.

Farmers, ranchers and others living in rural America don’t have time for partisan games. That is why I believe the new Rural Health Transformation Program deserves a closer look.

In general, I do not recommending telling a surgeon which specific type of surgery to perform. You place yourself in the surgeon’s hands and expect to be treated to the best of their expertise.

The dairy checkoff has introduced Smart Swaps, a dairy-focused initiative designed to help schools meet evolving nutrition standards and student expectations.

We are looking for innovative ideas to strengthen our communities and bring the next generation to the farm to ensure our nation continues to have a safe, healthy food supply.

The association of combined oral contraceptives with breast cancer is controversial. Many large studies, such as the Nurses’ Health Study, didn’t find an association between “the pill” with breast cancer, either while a woman is using it or after she stops.

Milk was named the official beverage of high school athletics in Indiana by American Dairy Association Indiana Inc. and the Indiana High School Athletic Association.

First aid knowledge can save lives — especially in rural areas where it takes emergency crews extra time to reach the scene.

This week is National Farm Safety and Health Week, but let’s be honest — every week should be.

Federal health officials have dramatically scaled back a program that has tracked food poisoning infections in the United States for three decades.

Physicians need to be very careful not to document a physical exam that they didn’t do. A less-kind word for consistently doing this practice is “fraud.”

How did we get to the point where we need a “Make America Healthy Again” campaign? Here’s one career dairyman’s perspective.

I think we can all agree that the goal of improving health outcomes is a worthy goal — and it is supported by America’s farmers and ranchers.

The Make American Healthy Again Commission released is policy recommendation aimed at addressing chronic childhood disease.

Concerns expressed by agriculture groups when the preliminary Make Our Children Healthy Again draft was issued in May were quelled with the final strategy.

Metformin, a treatment for diabetes that works mostly by preventing the liver from making sugar, isn’t new and has been used to help people lose weight for at least 20 years.

I can’t control what others say — but I can choose to speak up, share facts and encourage curiosity over fear.

Dairy Management Inc. is accepting entries for its 2026 New Product Competition, inviting undergraduate and graduate students across the United States to develop innovative dairy-based products that meet today’s consumer demands for bone and muscle health and weight management.

Moms who include dairy in their diet every day can significantly impact a child’s brain development, bone strength and immune system before they even take their first steps.

Legislation lifting long-standing restrictions on small poultry farms in Illinois was signed into law by the governor after unanimous approval in both General Assembly chambers.

The term “lupus” generally means systemic lupus erythematosis, or SLE, which is a systemic disorder as its name suggests. So, by definition, it affects multiple systems of the body.

In people with more severe hearing loss, hyperbaric oxygen has been shown to improve outcomes compared to steroids alone.

A report that U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has promised will improve the health of America’s children does not call on the government to make significant changes to its food or farming policies.

The food pyramid that once guided Americans’ diets has been retired for more than a decade, but that has not stopped President Donald Trump’s health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., from regularly criticizing the concept.

Most Americans get more than half their calories from ultra-processed foods, those super-tasty, energy-dense foods typically full of sugar, salt and unhealthy fats, according to a new federal report.