Farms across North America are well on their way to spring, but they’re not there just yet! It’s a good time to sow seeds of cool-weather annuals and warm-weather annuals that require a long period ...

Facial recognition technology isn’t limited to humans. Livestock are now getting their mugs snapped in order to help farmers monitor animal health, increase efficiency and improve traceability. This ...

In an era of unpredictable weather patterns, adaptability is key to success. As temperatures rise, rainfall becomes erratic, and growing seasons shift erratically, introducing climate-resilient crops ...

In 2010, Rémy Burcelin was mulling over research results in his laboratory when he made a discovery that could revolutionize the way foie gras is made. Burcelin, a medical scientist based in France, ...

As Brian Paddock walks through his 12-and-a-half acres of almond trees, he’s taking in everything. Paddock, like a lot of farmers, is a details guy. He pays attention to each tree, to the soil ...

When Eat Local Sudbury Co-op closed back in 2018, Chantal Lewington and a group of fellow Ontario farmers gathered to discuss their options for getting products to the community. It was a worrying ...

With recreational marijuana now legal in more than a dozen states (and Washington, D.C.), legal dispensaries are common across the country. One of the assumptions about the legalization of ...

Water scarcity is a growing concern. Lack of water from long, recurring droughts is increasingly dominating the food and agriculture world. It’s driven up the cost of groceries and put a dent in ...

If you had millions of pounds of cheese—along with butter and dry-milk powders—where would you keep it? If you’re the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the answer is obvious: in a series ...

Last spring, Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa put a ban on agrochemicals. His goal was an ambitious one: to transform Sri Lanka into the first nation with 100-percent organic agriculture. Less ...

It looks like rich, dark compost. It contains five times more nitrogen, seven times more phosphorus and 11 times more potassium than ordinary soil. It’s vermicompost – super soil produced as a result ...

Succession sowing is a practice that farmers and small gardeners both can appreciate. The result is multiple harvests over the entire season. This gives growers the option to split the yields, with ...