As heat and water scarcity increase, farmers have to adjust their strategies to ensure good production. The bottom line is important, but so is conserving non-renewable resources. Dry farming is one ...

Avalo can tailor seeds to region and climate, to grow in harsher conditions and to require less water, fertilizer and ...

The team at Gilliard Farms have been stewards of the land for six generations. Farmers are stewards of everything from soil and the crops that pop out of it to the microbes teeming with life ...

Farms come in all shapes and sizes, from a thousand-acre field planted in corn to a quarter-acre parcel supporting thirty different types of vegetables. One of the key differences between these two ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is a collaboration between The Associated Press and Grist. HOMESTEAD, Fla. — Jeremy Ford hates wasting water. As a mist of rain sprinkled the fields around him in Homestead, ...

According to some Indigenous communities across the Americas, Corn is a holy crop and she has sisters: Beans and Squash. For these communities, the three sister crops are meant to be grown and served ...

Saturday’s farmers’ market was robust with the aroma of baked bread, sweet treats, vegetables, and flowers. A small crowd gathered by the time the market opened at 8 a.m. in my old hometown of Le ...

It’s the second year in a row that parts of Minnesota have seen excessive rainfall amounts, leading to drowned-out acres. Many crops died in these places where water was standing for days. “Some of ...

With farmers up against tight margins and continuing to wait on a new Farm Bill, the Farm Assistance and Revenue Mitigation (FARM) Act has been introduced to Congress to help offset some of that ...