MODERN farming has come to the peasants near Odessa. Farming more modern than on up-to-date farms in America, yet grafted on a husbandry more ancient than that of the Pilgrim Fathers. Here until ...

A new study in Nature Sustainability reports that "[e]xtensive field data suggest that impacts on wild populations would be greatly reduced through boosting yields on existing farmland so as to spare ...

If you cover food and farming, as we do, you end up looking at farm magazines and agricultural web sites. This means you see lots of articles about corn prices and ads for farm equipment. Then, a ...

Drought in the West makes the news every year and it always seems to be the worst in decades. This summer, they say it is the worst in centuries. 2013 was the driest year on record in California. A ...

Professor-turned-farmer Michael Foley takes Throwback Thursday seriously. He believes farmers and eaters need to look to history and tradition for methods and technologies that will work in the face ...

Rebecca Nelson, who teaches international agriculture at Cornell University when she’s not zooming around Africa and Latin America, thinks a lot about the future of farming. She also happens to be my ...

This week, I received an email from a reader in response to last week’s column on three ways to grow agriculture advocacy. The opening line of the email said: “Does that mean you don't want to hear ...

Using modern and sophisticated methods in agriculture such as horticulture and aquaponics and other new techniques have helped local farmers to increase the quality and quantity of local farm ...

The Yogi government’s vision is clear: to make agriculture a profitable enterprise and place rural women at the centre of development. Under the leadership of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Uttar ...

KOTA KINABALU: Jafli Latu owns a piece of land that he inherited from his parents deca­des ago. To the 63-year-old, the land is more than just a farm; it is a legacy, a symbol of resilience, a ...