For Small Farms Surviving the Pandemic, Co-ops Are a Lifeline
Ian Colburn, Zoey Fink, and Casey Holland all operate small, diversified farms in the Albuquerque, New Mexico area. The farmers already had plants in the...
Op-ed: How Patents Threaten Small Seed Companies
When Brian Campbell and Crystine Goldberg of Uprising Seeds in Bellingham, Washington, opened a letter from German multinational chemical company BASF, they were caught off...
Iowa Farmers Face Climate-Fueled Destruction, While the Industry Says it’s ‘Just Weather’
Beneath a white tent on a wind-driven day in early September, Jerry Engelson wears a worried expression, visible even though most of his face is...
Wildfires Across Northern California Devastate Farmers and Farmland
On Tuesday night, Judith Redmond was alarmed by the thick brown smoke that clouded the air as she drove the 75 miles back from the...
How Tennessee farmers are helping to fight climate change | Opinion
Improved technology and farming practices are growing crops more efficiently while benefiting the environment.
USDA Moves Forward with Sweeping Plans to Prevent Fraud in Organics
In 2017, The Washington Post reported on a shipment of 36 million pounds of soybeans that were shipped from Ukraine to Turkey to California and...
Closure of Western Lamb Processor by JBS Could ‘Devastate the Ranch Economy’
In a few weeks, many Western sheep ranchers might not have a place to slaughter their lambs. Global meatpacking giant JBS last month won the...
Shockingly Simple: How Farmland Could Absorb an Extra 2 Billion Tonnes of CO2 From the Atmosphere Each Year
In the first nation-by-nation assessment, published in Nature, scientists have demonstrated the method’s potential for carbon drawdown by major economies, and identified the costs and engineering...