Augustus Thrall arrived in what would become Boone County in 1816, settling on land that would become the Model Farm half a century later. He established a store and lodging place on the prairie named ...

On a special episode (first released on November 20, 2024) of The Excerpt podcast: AI applications in vertical farming have the potential to usher in a new model that not only yields a high volume of ...

The Atlantic looks at a group effort in Pottawattamie County, Iowa, to reverse the standard industrial farming model, where both money and product tend to leave the area. The goal is to keep more ...

Straus Dairy Farm’s milk will have a climate footprint similar to plant-based alternatives and lower than soymilk by 2023 PETALUMA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Straus Family Creamery Founder and CEO ...

WOLCOTTVILLE, Ind. (WANE) — After receiving state recognition last week for their efforts to preserve a farm that predates the American Civil War, the Evers family received another gift Monday from an ...

Those of us in the authentic food and ecological farming tribe often cite externalized costs as one of the failings of the agri-industrial farming complex. We point out that the cheap price of food at ...

Originally, Jean-Martin Fortier knew nothing about farming. Now a world-renowned sustainable farmer, Fortier will be visiting the Roaring Fork Valley to share not just his tips to disrupt the ...

Four years ago, the vertical farming startup Bowery opened what it called the first “post-organic” farm, growing pesticide-free leafy greens inside a warehouse in New Jersey. Now its products are in ...

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 ...