I love springtime on the farm. Everything is fresh and green. Everywhere you look, you see life. It’s a time of renewal, of regeneration. Really that is what modern agriculture is about year-round.

ATHENA — Stories can be told in images just as much as words: a sunset silhouetting a pea harvest, a wheat air drill seeding a hill, and a soil probe pulling core samples from the ground all depict ...

Crop breeding for higher yields may be unintentionally reducing the beneficial microorganisms that help plants absorb nutrients Modern corn, wheat, and beans have dramatically different root systems ...

Companies like 80 Acres Farms are really shaking things up with their indoor growing setups. They started small, like in a shipping container, and now they’re building these huge, high-tech farms.

When the sun's fury disrupts high-tech farming, precision turns to chaos. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking space news, ...

It has many names: multi-story cropping, agroforestry, forest farming. All of these refer to farming within treed land. It’s a great way to seamlessly integrate the farm into the landscape and ...

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As row crop producers continue to struggle with low commodity prices and rising input costs, life in the dairy world is taking a turn for the better. As co-host Tyne Morgan states on the latest ...

Human health in the modern world is a conundrum. On the surface, we should be healthier than ever. We have more access to food and clean water than at any time in history. Doctors are more capable ...