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Harvesting five million bushels of wheat and corn from Texas to Montana, outrunning hailstorms that decimate a year's income in 20 minutes, and running a multimillion-dollar convoy of equipment down the highway with Josh Beckley, a third-generation custom harvester from Kansas.
Making all that whey is complicated.
If you’re ever out on a bike ride with me and you ask an innocent question like “hey, what’s with all the red plants on farms?” I must warn you that because of my masters degree in soil chemistry (that has laid fallow for over 30 years), I will go full Cliff Clavin on you whenever I’m given the chance. So here's the answer off the top of my head: Those plants are red clover, a cover crop grown typically in the spring on farms that normally grow food crops. They’re red because they’re loaded wit
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The powerhouse of American citrus is suffering a brutal decline. Everyone has a theory about why.
A story of power, drought, migrant labor, and an insatiable drive to expand.
Despite the initial hype, insect agriculture is facing the economic realities of competing with the traditional meat industry.
USDA research points to viruses spread by pesticide-resistant mites, indicating a worrying trend
A fast-spreading bacteria could cause an olive-oil apocalypse.
Wherever you find an old homestead—a house and barn with a little bit of land that has stood from sometime in the 1800s or early 1900s—you’ll find an
Ethanol is a comically inefficient form of solar energy—and a toxic one. Putting regular solar panels on some of that land would be better.
In 1970s Bali, a sudden rice crisis prompted an unexpectedly far-reaching scientific discovery
A tiny town in Wisconsin faces a lawsuit from an industry heavyweight, a growing trend when citizens try to regulate CAFOs in their backyards.
Master falconer Alina Blankenship and her mélange of raptors have become the protectors of some of Oregon's top vineyards.
The area devoted to growing the three top crops is bigger than the size of Texas. But even on that podium there’s only one king.
Vidalia Onions to be exact. They’re classified as a sweet onion, and because of their mild flavor (they don’t make your eyes tear up), some folks can eat them like an apple. Most of my customers do. During a phone order one season – 2018 I believe – a customer shared this story where he ... Read more
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Capitalism, corruption and exploitation created the broken system of ‘insurance farming’—and the biggest loser is the American taxpayer.
Cody Easterday wagered hundreds of millions of dollars on the price of beef. He lost.
Growers of New Mexico’s iconic crop wrestle with drought, water rights and labor shortages.
Why it’s getting harder to stop multinational corporations.
Cropster started as a tool to lift coffee producers out of poverty. Now it has a bigger mission: to save the entire global food supply.
One method, the slow, methodical work of traditional hybridization, is long familiar. The other, genetic engineering, is more controversial.
Farmers like sixth-generation Illinois farmer Ethan Cox can't wait for policymakers to protect them from climate change. To survive, they have to adapt their operations now, if they can.
In an isolated Northern California community, the last remnants of the counterculture are confronting the future of cannabis.
Almond growing in California is a $7.6 billion industry that wouldn’t be possible without the 30 billion bees (and hundreds of human beekeepers) who keep the trees pollinated — and whose very existence is in peril.
A new idea: If we revive the tiny creatures that make dirt healthy, we can bring back the great American topsoil. But farming culture — and government — aren't making it easy.