Howdy, my name is Megan Webb. I’m a sixth-generation agriculturalist raised on a family farm, Flying W Farms, in Burlington, West Virginia. Elders in my family have mindfully cultivated the Patterson ...

New research in Science is showing how the rise of modern agriculture has turned a North American native plant, common waterhemp, into a problematic agricultural weed. An international team led by ...

Intensive agriculture developed during the second half of the 20 th century and is still widely used today. Yet more and more voices are being heard for a return to more traditional techniques, even ...

Soil nitrogen mineralization (N min) is a key process that converts organic N into mineral N that controls soil N availability to plants. However, regional assessments of soil N min in cropland and ...

Industrial agriculture depends on monoculture—growing single crops that can be easily planted, fertilized, treated with pesticides, and harvested—especially on large-scale, mechanized farms. In spite ...

BRASHEAR, Mo. — The registration deadline is Wednesday for a management intensive grazing school in Northeast Missouri. The school takes place Sept. 25 to 27 at the Keller Building in Brashear and ...

(Beyond Pesticides, November 7, 2023) Two decades after the introduction of genetically engineered, herbicide-resistant crops and the consequential exponential growth in weed killers, Brazil is seeing ...

Wetlands, such as bogs and marshes, have largely disappeared in the Netherlands. With humidification and the growth of the right plants, wetlands can be restored. This is evident from research by ...

Involvement of Big Tech Giants in farming will jeopardise farmers and food sustainability, warns a new report from the ...

Bathinda:A global report warning that AI-driven, capital-intensive farming could deepen debt and marginalise smaller ...