Agriculture

A test plot of crimson clover at USDA NRCS Plant Material Center. One of the key questions lingering over the 2023 farm bill reauthorization is whether Congress will approve a...

My husband and I bought our first home in a small West Virginia town in January 2023. The bright green dwelling sits in the middle of a dead-end street where...

A version of this article originally appeared in The Deep Dish, our members-only newsletter. Become a member today and get the next issue directly in your inbox. Before the pandemic, Elizabeth Santamour...

The American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) has initiated the development of a new standard, S665, Crop Protection Equipment – Test methods for the evaluation of targeted spray...

NET ZERO GHGS EQUALS ZERO FOOD By Jaclyn De Candio for Protect The Harvest If you’ve paid attention to mainstream news outlets, you’ve likely come across the phrase “net zero”...

Rural Wisconsin photographer Stephanie Hull is used to making spooky discoveries, but her latest finding was “one of the spookiest things I’ve ever found,” she said in the description on...

The global population is estimated to reach 9.7 billion by 2050, with global demand for food set to increase by 60% as a result. However, with the agricultural sector already...

In the past two years or so, as discussed in the first article of this series, the issue of restricting foreign investments and ownership in privately held farmland emerged or...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Laura Zaks National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition lzaks@sustainableagriculture.net  Tel. 347.563.6408 Comment: NSAC Welcomes Senate Amendment to Restore Funding for the Office of Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production ...

I noticed it when first learning farming 14 years ago, traveling around small diverse vegetable farms in the US and Ecuador. Small farms that made all their household income from...