Agriculture Archives

The USDA Predicts a 12-Year Low in Farm Profits

The 2018 net farm income is predicted to reach $59.5 billion, a $4.3 billion decrease from 2017.

An interview with Charles C. Mann about the roots of modern environmentalism and the fate of the human species.

Re-assessing how much food we throw out.

Growing native grasses allows cows to produce milk more efficiently and helps women in Kenya thrive where the men have struggled.

Is the world finally ready for cellular agriculture, meat grown in a laboratory, or whatever else the latest marketing attempts are calling it?

Increasing beef productivity and engaging directly with the supply chain may be a flawed approach when seeking positive conservation outcomes.

Activists point to rights abuses, ecological disasters, and what they believe to be unfair distribution of profits.

Limited resources combined with the rate at which the number of people is increasing makes the need for solutions especially urgent.

A new briefing by the Global Canopy Programme outlines the struggles that farmers face in the move from traditional to sustainable farming.

The die-off is the latest data point in a decade-long decline in the nation's honeybee colonies.