The Farm Credit Administration received its quarterly report on economic conditions affecting agriculture and an update on ...

For the last several decades, the default path for American farmers and ranchers has been increasing specialization of the agricultural activities on their operations. In 1949, American farmers ...

Joe Maxwell doesn’t pull punches — especially on the topic of the future of American agriculture. “The system is failing us,” says Maxwell, co-founder of Farm Action, during a recent episode of ...

Following the success of its 40th anniversary music and food festival in Minneapolis, Farm Aid will distribute more than $1.3 ...

Mercy for Animals president and CEO Leah Garcés has been an animal rights advocate fighting the factory farming system for more than two decades. But her approach to advocacy changed the day she met ...

I sat down to write this piece after a five-inch April snowstorm gave our newly planted wheat fields their first drink of the season. Wheat is one of five crops we raise on our farm just outside ...

What if the future of farming didn’t involve sprawling fields or endless rows of crops under the open sky? What if the solution to feeding a growing global population lay not in expanding farmland but ...

Farmers face mounting financial pressures that threaten mental health and family legacies across the agricultural industry.

In Qingtian's terraced fields, fish and rice thrive in a symbiotic environment. The fish control pests and fertilize the rice ...