If you are hoping to purchase a locally grown turkey for Thanksgiving dinner, you might be too late. Local growers say ...
Amidst the annual holiday boom in turkey sales, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is proposing a new rule to reduce salmonella in poultry. That's a laudable goal, but the actual ...
Photo by Sam Gellman Photography/Getty Images. Although farm subsidies were originally intended to help family farms, they have become a tool for making the largest and wealthiest farms larger and ...
Just a Few Acres Farm in Lansing, NY has nearly 500,000 subscribers on YouTube, where seventh-generation farmer Pete Larson posts videos with titles like “The basics of cutting hay” and “Playing in ...
J essica Frenette, owner of Bird’s Hill Farms in New Brunswick, raises full-blood Japanese Wagyu beef that has food lovers ...
Residents who operate small farms say back-to-back increases in water rates are causing them to pay triple what they once did ...
NEWPORT, Va. – Farms across the country are closing at an alarming rate, with experts estimating that about 2,000 acres of farmland cease operations each year. The Blue Horn, like many others in the ...
HUMBOLDT COUNTY, Calif. — Booming thunderclaps cracked like gunfire through the cold night air as heavy branches snapped off ancient redwood trees and slammed to the earth 200 feet below. “It sounded ...
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 the farm struggled ...
After nearly 100 days of traveling the nation and visiting directly with hundreds of farmers across America, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins recently released the first set of policy ...
Lawmakers have removed provisions that block megafarms from taxpayer-funded conservation programs. After years wrangling over ...