Farmers can also grow crops that can handle the high saline content either in soil or in irrigation water. Those with high ...

Have you heard of using cricket shells to improve crop yields? If so, you’ve heard of b. These natural materials, designed to nurture plant health, have become more ...

When I saw the local avocados in the Mexican state of Yucatan, a hot, humid region located in the south of the country, I didn’t think they were avocados. Some were the size of small melons, others ...

Let’s get this out of the way: Cow tipping, at least as popularly imagined, does not exist. Drunk young men do not, on any regular basis, sneak into cow pastures and put a hard shoulder into a cow ...

Oats, winter wheat, cereal rye, and barley are all cool-season soil-feeding cover crops. Their dense growth rate covers soil ...

When Paula and Dale Boles took over Dale’s father’s farmland in North Carolina, they thought that poultry farming would be a good way to work the land until they were ready to pass it on to their ...

If you had millions of pounds of cheese—along with butter and dry-milk powders—where would you keep it? If you’re the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the answer is obvious: in a series ...

As California entered a second year of drought last spring, the slash in water allocation didn’t catch Rachel Krach and Greg Massa, owners of Massa Organics, by surprise. The real shocker came when ...

Environmentally-minded farmers are well aware that building up soil carbon is one key to achieving high yields without chemical inputs. It’s through the expansion of global carbon markets, however, ...

Michael Pollan deemed it agriculture’s “secret weapon” in a December op-ed for the Washington Post. Bill McKibben, in his praise for an upcoming book on the topic, described carbon farming as “a ...

What is graywater, exactly? Household wastewater from washing machines, bathroom sinks, showers, and bathtubs is considered “gray” because it is only lightly soiled and poses a minimal health risk. As ...