Why Are Berries Everywhere, in Every Season? Driscoll’s.

The California giant has helped turn a local, seasonal treat into a worldwide refrigerator staple and marketing juggernaut.

What Does Maceration Mean in Wine? | Wine Enthusiast

Maceration is like steeping tea, but instead of a teabag, it's grape solids soaking in juice, imparting color, tannins, and flavor.

Southern Olive Oil

As climates shift and traditional growing regions suffer, the American South has potential to be the next global olive oil source.

Food Prices Today: US Produce Price Charts from USDA Data

Food prices today for onions, potatoes, tomatoes, lettuce, avocados and strawberries: USDA wholesale and shipping point quotes with price charts, change against a year earlier, grocery ad prices by region and daily updates. Latest report 18 Sep 2026.

Barge capacity

One 15-barge tow on the lower Mississippi holds about 875,000 bushels of grain, the load of almost 216 rail cars or 1,000 trucks. Source: USDA Agricultural Marketing Service: https://www.ams.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media/ReliableWaterwaySystem042025.pdf

Is Beef the Next Internal-Combustion Engine?

Bill McKibben on beef consumption in the U.S., R.F.K., Jr.,’s recent recommendations, and the environmental harms of the cattle industry.

How do combine harvesters work?

I'll give you the key...

Rewilding (and high density agriculture)

Who cares if he's evil?

It's what you do, not how you do it…

Let Me And A Food Scientist Sample The Abandoned Fish Sauce Terrorizing A Small Canadian Town | Defector

Take capelin, a small silvery fish in the smelt family. Now add salt. Then throw those two ingredients in 110 vats, each of them about 10 feet tall, and let them sit in a defunct factory for over two decades. The resulting stench might haunt an entire community, as it has the…

What It's Like to Be...a Custom Harvester - By Dan Heath - Behavioral Scientist

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.

The Protein Shortage Is Coming

Making all that whey is complicated.

Why do Oregon farms plant red clover every spring?

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…

This Alberta Startup Sells No-Tech Tractors for Half Price | Wheel Front

This Alberta Startup Sells No-Tech Tractors for Half Price .Read automotive and aftermarket news today on Wheel Front

Who Killed the Florida Orange? Deep in Desiccated Groves, I Saw Some Haunting Answers.

The powerhouse of American citrus is suffering a brutal decline. Everyone has a theory about why.

A Kingdom from Dust

A story of power, drought, migrant labor, and an insatiable drive to expand.

Why Insect Farming Startups Are Going Bankrupt

Despite the initial hype, insect agriculture is facing the economic realities of competing with the traditional meat industry.

Scientists identify culprit behind biggest-ever U.S. honey bee die-off

USDA research points to viruses spread by pesticide-resistant mites, indicating a worrying trend

Olive trees

A fast-spreading bacteria could cause an olive-oil apocalypse.

Making Old Orchards New Again

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

The One Climate Policy All 2024 Candidates Support Is Actually Terrible

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.

The Ancient Order of Bali

In 1970s Bali, a sudden rice crisis prompted an unexpectedly far-reaching scientific discovery

A tiny Wisconsin town tried to stop pollution from factory farms. Then it got sued.

A tiny town in Wisconsin faces a lawsuit from an industry heavyweight, a growing trend when citizens try to regulate CAFOs in their backyards.

The Vineyard Falcon Does Not Suffer Fools

Master falconer Alina Blankenship and her mélange of raptors have become the protectors of some of Oregon's top vineyards.

Ranked: America’s Top Crops by Acres Harvested in 2023

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.

I sell onions on the Internet - Deep South Ventures

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…

Tobacco Country’s Dirtiest Open Secret

Capitalism, corruption and exploitation created the broken system of ‘insurance farming’—and the biggest loser is the American taxpayer.

Betting the ranch (Betting The Ranch) — High Country News – Know the West

Cody Easterday wagered hundreds of millions of dollars on the price of beef. He lost.

Hatch green chiles are feeling the heat

Growers of New Mexico’s iconic crop wrestle with drought, water rights and labor shortages.

Rural America is Gearing Up For a Generation of Change - Austin Vernon's Blog

The Untouchables

Why it’s getting harder to stop multinational corporations.

The Crop Software Behind Your Daily Cup of Coffee

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.

Perspective | Blight wiped out the American chestnut. Parallel efforts are close to bringing it back.

One method, the slow, methodical work of traditional hybridization, is long familiar. The other, genetic engineering, is more controversial.

Betting the Farm on the Drought

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.

How Legalization Changed Humboldt County Marijuana

In an isolated Northern California community, the last remnants of the counterculture are confronting the future of cannabis.

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The Super Bowl of Beekeeping

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.

Can American soil be brought back to life?

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.