On a cloudless summer morning, a warm breeze drifts through the open-air patio at the North Missouri Produce Auction. It snakes through aisles of produce bins filled with hundreds of watermelons and ...

BREMEN, Ohio (AP) — John Wilson Jr. is selling a handful of summer squash to the highest bidder at the Bremen Farmers’ Auction. Standing on a railed platform mounted on four wheels, Wilson points, ...

OXFORD — In box trucks and horse-drawn wagons, Amish farmers and others carry corrugated crates of bright vegetables and fruits to an open-sided auction house in Oxford, Chester County, to meet buyers ...

ELMA, Iowa (AP) -- Noah Weaver has 11 mouths to feed. Supporting a large family with 160 acres and 50 cows is a struggle. Milk prices at 24-year-lows don't make things any easier. The 39-year-old ...

Three auctions in one week. My wife Judy and I travelled to rural Cashton, near Reedstown and outside of Ironton, on the Amish auction circuit. The series of consignment sales featured quilts, ...

Boxes of squash, peas, berries and peaches line the floor at the Chesterhill Produce Auction, where the highest bidders will reap the harvest. Every Monday and Thursday at 4 o’clock, the Chesterhill ...

Little Raccoon Valley near Nyesville in Parke County is watercolor landscape perfect. Its fields of watermelon and cantaloupe and hay cover the gentle curve of the valley with deep green, broken only ...

BARNETT, Mo. (AP) — In the Amish and Mennonite communities of central Missouri, hard work is valued more than book knowledge. Formal education ends by the eighth grade, and religious prohibitions on ...

Jul. 10—The New Wilmington Produce Auction is under new ownership. Joe Miller and Amanda Houston recently sold the facility at 3238 state Route 208 just west of Route 18 to Dan Byler of New Wilmington ...

PLATTEVILLE, Wisconsin (madison.com/Wisconsin State Journal) — The new beginnings were plentiful at this old-school way of commerce. The broccoli plants were three ...