Quality farmland stays strong while lower-grade parcels struggle as federal assistance helps stabilize the agricultural land ...

On questions of whether farm program payments like the Farm Bridge Assistance that is forthcoming are necessary, Kent Thiesse ...

Look up whether your area has water usage laws (common in drier climates) and if it’s enough to support your needs. Experiment with water catchment systems such as rainwater harvesting or creating ...

“Son, any man who buys land in Iowa today is a fool.” The speaker, naturally, was an Iowa dirt farmer, sounding off last week on the rip-roaring boom in farm lands. He still remembered the World War I ...

An enterprise that has long existed but has become less common is farming. Although farming was once primarily an activity to sustain the farmer and his family, farming can be a money-making ...

Over the next (and possibly last) few decades of human population growth, there will be a need for more food and particularly for more protein. As much as possible this needs to happen without ...

The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. It’s a sunny Wednesday afternoon at FrontLine Farming’s Majestic View Farm in Arvada, and the weekly team ...

Support VTDigger’s local nonprofit news and you could win a $250 gift card to Johnson Woolen Mills. Shona Sanford-Long fills a stock tank with water for her herd in Tunbridge, Vt., on Wednesday, July ...

Foreign investors own roughly 41 million acres of U.S. agricultural land, posing national security risks when the land is ...

According to the United Nations, the global population is expected to reach 8.5 billion by 2030, 9.7 billion by 2050 and over 11 billion by the end of the century. Currently, about 11% of the world’s ...