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In the coming year, the USDA predicts that American corn exports will be at a 40-year low. That's because the U.S. drought has led to a corn shortage and high domestic corn prices. To adapt, grain exporters have had to change their business models.

Dozens of food companies have promised to stop their suppliers from clearing forests in order to grow crops or graze cattle. Now the companies have a tool to monitor those farmers from space.

Across the corn belt, more farmers are putting up their own grain bins. In the past year alone, farmers nationwide have added some 300 million bushels of on-farm storage. By storing their own grain, farmers can choose when and at what price they want to sell, and that can translate into thousands of dollars in profit. And this has grain buyers — like grain elevators and ethanol plants --working to keep their edge in the market.

A pause on the release of $2 billion in foreign aid could affect the government's longest-running permanent program for international food assistance -- Food for Peace.

Thanks to interleague play, the formerly cursed Boston Red Sox and the perhaps-still-cursed Chicago Cubs are meeting on the field for the first time in 90 years. Melissa Block talks with George Lucas, owner of the famed Cubby Bear sports bar in Chicago. He was at Wrigley Field on Friday for the first game in the series.

Ah, college — the classes, the parties, the debt. Is it still worth it? While most schools have seen enrollment declines during the pandemic, there's been a jump in applications at "elite" schools.

Scrimshaw is the art of carving and engraving on whale bone, but a New York artist has been bending the rules and using trash in place of the traditional medium.

The Queens of Africa are based on Nigeria's three largest groups — Igbo, Yoruba and Hausa — and each has traits meant to empower the girls who play with them.

There have been seven cases of bacterial meningitis on the university's campus since March. The FDA has given approval to importing a European vaccine because the strain detected at Princeton isn't covered by vaccines available in the U.S. The severe disease can cause serious complications or death.

The vaccine has not been approved in the U.S. but an outbreak at the university prompted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to recommend importing the vaccine.