Modern farming habits boosting yields today may quietly strip soils of their resilience, threatening long-term fertility and food security.

“There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks,” said Robert F. Kennedy in 1964. “They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a ...

There’s a lot going on in farming these days. Some farmers are looking at succession plans, trying to figure out who will take over the family business. Others are looking to transition away from ...

I love springtime on the farm. Everything is fresh and green. Everywhere you look, you see life. It’s a time of renewal, of regeneration. Really that is what modern agriculture is about year-round.

During his long tenure as the successor to the throne, then-Prince Charles was a defender of the environment. The Prince of Wales website underlines the use of “his unique position to champion action ...

Nebraska Republican Rep. Adrian Smith said the caucus will promote advances in food production and maybe heal some political divisions. The House already has a Peanut Caucus, a Cranberry Caucus and a ...

Using a resilience theory approach could help reveal practical solutions and clarify their potential trade-offs. New research warns that modern agricultural methods are placing the global food supply ...

For sustainable farmers, hand-weeding can be laborious, backbreaking work and can cost upwards of $300 an acre in labor costs. A French startup called Naïo Technologies is hoping to solve this problem ...

If you wanted to produce food at the lowest cost to the environment, what methods would you use? Would you select modern farming methods (large-scale, specialized, mechanized and increasingly digital) ...

SHANGHAI, June 4 (Reuters) - At Chongming Island just outside Shanghai, China’s most populous city, workers collect and pack tomatoes and cucumbers at a glass greenhouse operated by Dutch company ...