Jonathan and Carolyn Olson’s family farm has been going for more than a century. But within the past 30 years, they’ve made ...

Ensuring sufficient global food production and supply using sustainable methods is one of the most significant challenges we face this century. Organic farming is seen as one potential solution to the ...

In 1989, the Agriculture Department at Western Illinois University identified a historically pesticide-free, limited-fertilizer, 80-acre farm located near the WIU campus. From 1989 through 2002, we ...

If nonprofits abandon long-term research in favor of short-term validation, we risk optimizing for visibility rather than ...

COMSTOCK, Minn. -- Organic farming in the Red River Valley -- a region known for conventional wheat and sugar beet production -- is a challenge, says Curtis Ballard of Ogema. Organic producers and ...

Even now, running an organic farm means you have to sell the idea of organic farming, as well as the produce that grows there. Unless, of course, you farm in Boulder County. Erin Dreistadt checks the ...

The question of whether hydroponic production can be certified as organic now rests with a panel of federal appeals court judges, who seemed to be inclined to affirm a lower court decision allowing ...

We are no longer facing the question of whether there is climate change; ask any farmer — it’s changed. We are now facing a climate crisis; and the real question is, what are the immediate and ...

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