Starting a small vegetable farm on, say, 2ha, is generally easier than livestock farming. But the cost, and success, of the enterprise depends on the…
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When Jackie Augustine opens a chicken coop door one brisk spring morning in upstate New York, the hens bolt out like windup toys. Still, as…
INDIANOLA, Iowa — The U.S. corn planting pace is slightly ahead of the five-year pace. On Monday, the USDA released its Crop Progress Report that…
No rock is being left unturned to move pigs right now, says Illinois pig farmer Thomas Titus. With packing plants closing and slowing down temporarily,…
Farmers tend to gradually wind down their work as they reach old age, but no one told Devonshire farmer Alec Burrough. Despite being classed as…
A study has tracked the shift from hunter-gatherer lifestyles to early farming that occurred in prehistoric Europe over a period of around 1,500 years. An…
Missouri Farm Bureau Director Eric Bohl said the COVID-19 pandemic has left everyone in the industry in the same distressed predicament. “Prices have been plummeting…
While government’s support provisions for farms affected by the coronavirus are much-needed and welcome, strict conditions for eligibility risk leaving some of the most successful…
Since Poland became a member of the EU in 2004, poultry production has increased exponentially, and today the country is the largest producer of poultry…
Inside a makeshift structure that looks like a greenhouse on Samson Tanui’s farm in Uasin Gishu County are plastic containers of various colours hanging…
A study by researchers in the US shows that people from places where farming work has been historically important have higher work ethics and work…
Home-made compost combined with an extremely diverse rotation and minimal soil disturbance has the cut the inputs and agronomic management needed on Simon Cowell’s farm…
The selflessness, rapid organisation and collaboration of these farmers is truly outstanding and pays testament to the generosity and strength of the relationships the farmers…
UN warns of potential ‘catastrophe’ as billions of locusts consume crops Men attempt to fend off a swarm of desert locusts flying over a grazing…
Investing in our own food supply is probably a good idea, exec says Rural America needs help. That was the key message from Beth Ford,…
“If the river was running, Dad would never have done it.” These are the words of an eight-year-old boy at his father’s funeral in 2017.…
We are tracking frost and freeze potential US temperature weather maps this weekend that indicate a strong possibility frost-apocalypse is headed for the Pacific, Rocky…
When the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a designation of “safe and effective” with regards to Monsanto’s infamously controversial Roundup (glyphosate-based) herbicide, in direct…