New federal initiative provides farmers funding for soil health practices and conservation through streamlined application ...

A new Farm Journal poll conducted on behalf of Invest in Our Land across 10 leading agricultural states shows that American farmers and ranchers overwhelmingly believe conservation funding has an ...

The escalating challenges of climate change - including prolonged droughts, soil degradation, and unpredictable growing ...

Soli health practices can help Flip Your Soil from good to great. These practices are also part of the new Climate Smart Agriculture push to sequester carbon and lower greenhouse gases. USDA recently ...

Climate-smart practices include techniques that build soil carbon, like cover-cropping, not tilling fields after harvest and adding biochar or finely ground silicate rock to soils; and those that ...

As a cattle farmer in Berks County, I am increasingly facing challenges resulting from extreme weather fueled by climate change. In one extreme weather event in the summer of 2023, our farm received ...

Murray State College President Dr. Tim Faltyn (left) and Chickasaw Nation Governor Bill Anoatubby recently acknowledged their respective institutions’ partnership in a U.S. Department of Agriculture ...

Farmer Will Tipton holds a radish, one of the cover crops he's using. Some scientists worry that the climate benefits of cover crops and other regenerative agriculture practices are oversold. Climate ...

Women are at the forefront of adopting Climate-Smart Agriculture practices in the fight against the effects of climate change. [iStockphoto] Women are at the forefront of adopting Climate-Smart ...

Farm groups and recipients of USDA grants are trying to find out if promised money for conservation projects is still coming. The Agriculture Department’s $3.1 billion program to promote farm ...