Think about the lettuce on your plate. Chances are, it traveled about 1,500 miles to reach your fork.In the US, lettuce ...

MINNEAPOLIS --While the Environmental Protection Agency says a longer growing season helps some crops in some areas, climate change is presenting a host of challenges for farming in the United States.

The world’s current agricultural practices are unsustainable, and indoor farming may offer solutions to some of these problems, argue many of the leaders in the space. The global population is ...

Food security is a global challenge and it’s only getting more critical, says Irving Fain, founder and CEO of Bowery, the vertical farming company using hydroponics and digital agriculture to ...

Over the years, post-hunter-gatherer societies have adopted modern agricultural techniques such as the use of machinery and agrochemicals. This has led to lower production costs, increased farming ...

The hottest innovations in farming right now are all about slow transitions. Carla Vernón, president of General Mills natural and organic operating unit, discussed her company’s commitment to ...

In our current day and age, there are multiple threats to agricultural sustainability. But in this technological era, there are solutions not yet widely explored. "Computational agroecology or ...

A rising global population means that maintaining viable agricultural space is one of the most pressing farming issues of 2023 and beyond. Vertical farming is growing crops indoors in stacked layers, ...

It's all to do with chinampas. These raised fields built on artificial islands sound almost too good to be true. Often fed by a network of canals and dykes, they apparently afford "extremely high" ...

Ashraya Badayak of Belauri in Kanchanpur has turned his farm profitable with drones for spraying fertiliser and pesticide.

HOUMA, La. — After driving three hours to Grand Isle from Baton Rouge to tend their farm, Boris and Elina Guerrero would arrive to find around half of their oyster crop dead throughout the spring. The ...