Agriculture

The rising tide of labor organizing accelerated in 2023, as workers from the Hollywood actors’ and writers’ guild and the auto industry earned significant successes.The food sector was less active on...

Editor’s note: Senior Online Editor Matt Hopkins has been compiling his list of the best mobile apps in agriculture since 2010. In the slideshow below you’ll find more than 30...

ITALY PIONEERS BAN ON LAB-GROWN MEAT Italy recently made history by becoming the first European Union nation to officially ban the production and sale of lab-grown or cultivated meat, sparking...

Courtesy of Peter Hecht Waylon and Willie, two rescue dogs who helped protect a Tulare County farm from crime, have earned the $1,000 Grand Prize in the third annual California...

Cornell researchers partnered with New York livestock farmers to analyze transactions at farmers’ markets, finding that sales were better on Sundays, early in the morning, and during certain months of...

The Louisiana Constitution permits “very person…the right to acquire, own, control, use,…private property.” La. Const. Ann. art. I, § 4. However, the state constitution authorizes the state legislature to enact...

With 2024 around the corner, we at Modern Farmer are looking ahead to a whole new year of stories and reporting that will help inform and enable people to get...

Nearly three years since the COVID-19 pandemic began upendeding the global food system, we are still seeing food insecurity in all the same places. Early, and major, changes to federal...

Editor’s note: In 2023 the agricultural industry faced challenges from extreme weather to supply chain issues. To address these issues and meet the goal of feeding a growing population, researchers...

STATES ACT AGAINST MASSACHUSETTS QUESTION 3 TO PROTECT A FREE AND FED AMERICA™ In a recently filed amicus brief in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts,...