farming

The fruit in my hand is 6 months old, but tastier than ever. It’s a pink pomelo from Pearson Ranch in California, and the big orb’s fabulously thick rind—an inch ...

It’s nearly a 200-mile commute home for historian Victor Davis Hanson from the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, ...

Agricultural soil is an important resource for communities all over the world, not only because it provides humans ...

In the past few decades, thousands of studies have revealed the negative consequences of herbicides and pesticides on ...

The transformation of a tiny seed into a tree still amazes this 12-year-old farmer who works hard after ...

Odds are, among many, that’d be a nope. Fair enough. But spurred by factors such as a burgeoning ...

Symbiotic balance of multi species in our Family Cow pastures... Sometimes I feel like a double agent privy to ...

Submitted by Eleanor Rodio Furlong, Naples, Florida I'm a Jersey girl. I'm a farm girl. I'm an Italian ...

Roadside farmstands are making a comeback. They have been around forever, more common in some places than in ...

Commentary Farm-to-table refers to freshly grown produce—that is, fruits and vegetables not transported from some distant time zone ...

It is easy to frame conservation as a clash between environmentalists and polluters. But this view can greatly ...

In a substantial move for one of the country's largest chicken producers, Perdue will change its chicken slaughtering method. While animal ...

Here's what it takes to harvest carrots on an industrial scale. This video shows a triple-track carrot extracter, ...

Do you know how these grow? Chocolate, cashews, pepper corn, baby corn, cinnamon, wasabi, pineapple, kiwi, sesame seeds, ...

The humble coffee bean is one of the most important and actively traded commodities in the world.

Worldwide, the bulk of water use is tied to agriculture – it accounts for approximately 66% of water ...

The amount of land dedicated to growing vegetables dropped almost 4 percent last year compared to 2013 levels, ...

It's midmorning and hundreds of people are squeezed under a banyan tree's shady canopy to have blood drawn ...

The U.S. agriculture system wants to turn up the herbicide chemicals, but doctors, scientists, and watch dog groups ...

STOCKHOLM - Swedish farmers and scientists have realized that ground domestic mussels – 'musselmeal' – could replace other ...

Whole milk consumption has plummeted in the United States, falling by a massive 78 percent since 1970 alone. ...

Historically, the European Union (EU) has taken a far stricter, more cautious stance with regards to genetically engineered ...

On the beautiful shores of Paje, a seaside village on the southeast coast of Zanzibar, women crouch in ...

30 percent of perfectly good vegetables are not harvested simply because they aren't pretty. Thirty to 50 percent ...

How are milkweed, pillows, and monarch butterflies connected?

Corn is huge business in the United States, but can it last?

At over 950 pages, the long awaited Farm Bill pleases some, disappoints others.