Tag: farming

“Climate change, droughts, population growth, and pollution are likely to make water scarcity issues and pricing a hot topic for years to come.”

It is time we fight back and support animal welfare, our environment, and what we put on our dinner plates!

“This dual use of the land adds a layer of efficiency that wouldn’t be there. You start seeing layer after layer of benefit, benefit, benefit."

They are working to repair harm inflicted over the past 400 years, with an eye toward reparations.

Direct sales and the organic label are not enough to keep family-scale farms viable.

Shirley Sherrod co-founded New Communities, a Black farming community in rural Georgia. But at one time, she wanted to leave farming far...

If policymakers can envision a contemporary version of ideas in the original New Deal, a climate-friendly and socially just American agriculture is within reach.

In February, a dairy farmer friend sent me a note confiding that a few farmers she knows are living on cereal until...

Parity is at the core of agriculture’s potential to address overproduction.

"We'll find out in three months if the Trump EPA remains under the tight control of the chemical agriculture industry, or if Administrator Wheeler will finally take his job seriously and ban this brain-damaging pesticide."