“There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks,” said Robert F. Kennedy in 1964. “They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a ...

In a time when efficiency, sustainability, and productivity are important, agriculture is no longer just about soil, seeds, ...

Over the past 15 to 20 years, the adoption of automatic milking systems (AMS) has expanded considerably. This growth is ...

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 ...

Nitrogen (ammonia) fertilizers, synthesized from natural gas and atmospheric nitrogen, have joined phosphorus and potassium in supercharging soils. Increased atmospheric carbon dioxide spurs plant ...

If you wanted to produce food at the lowest cost to the environment, what methods would you use? Would you select modern farming methods (large-scale, specialized, mechanized and increasingly digital) ...

In 2019, Jeff Siewicki was a pharmacist who never planned to become a farmer. His plan was to create a 25’ x 25’ garden for personal use near his home outside of Charleston, South Carolina. He hunted ...

Farmers play an important role in all of our lives. They grow the food that the rest of us need to survive. The practices of farming have evolved over time and some argue that adopting a change to ...

Scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have engineered sorghum plants with more upright leaves that produce higher yields while using the same amount of water, according to a news ...

Farmers in the Caraga region are leaving traditional farming methods behind and have positively embraced technologies and interventions that make farming easier and convenient and have increased their ...

Renowned agricultural scientist, Dr MS Swaminathan, had always desired the “Indian agriculture to become intellectually satisfying and economically rewarding so that it could trigger job-led economic ...