American agriculture is a repository of unlikely tales, none more seemingly implausible than that of Noelle Greathouse — a belle of New York City and daughter of Long Island, who traded blue-blood sophistication for black-dirt farmland. Chris Bennett shares her story.
USDA’s first crop rating of the season for winter wheat pegs 28% good to excellent and 35% poor to very poor. In the drought year of 2012, 40% was rated good to excellent.
