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Erika Mahoney/KAZUFarm workers in California are facing the double health threat of working during the coronavirus pandemic and fire season. Wildfire smoke often makes the air quality dangerous for harvesting produce. -
Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe Internet startup Tillable wants to match farmers with farmland available for rent. The problem? Farmers already on that land fear their farm data is being used against them.
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Dairy farmers in Massachusetts are using food waste to create renewable energy. Each farm produces enough to power about 1,500 homes. This helps prevent the release of methane, a greenhouse gas. -
An Oklahoma man exploring his Cherokee roots discovered a forgotten variety of corn and revived it with help of heirloom seed savers. The revived Glass Gem corn now has 19,000 Facebook followers. -
A new study shows many of the world's streams and rivers could dry up because people are draining underground aquifers that sustain streams through dry periods. Climate change won't help matters. -
More than 250 employees have quit, and others are expected to follow suit before the Sept. 30 deadline for reporting to work in the Kansas City area. Critics of the move say research will suffer. -
What makes California great wine country also makes it great for growing marijuana. Santa Barbara County has some of the nation's biggest legal pot farms, which leads to conflicts with other farmers. -
Researchers at Arizona State University are studying locusts in hopes of finding better ways of preventing swarms from destroying crops. -
Weeks of rain across the Midwest and the Great Plains have kept many farmers from planting crops. On top of that, they are dealing with President Trump's ongoing trade dispute with China. -
An article in the Michigan Farm News about the dramatic decline of Eastern Monarch butterflies in the U.S. got my attention recently. It detailed how the… -
Farmers and ranchers in the the U. S. have come to depend upon exports of many agricultural commodities to Mexico and Canada to help support domestic crop… -
Calving season on ranches and farms in the Four Corners Region usually runs from February through April, but research suggests that the season would fit…
