Intensive animal farming may increase the risk of future pandemics, a new study has found. The findings go against the conventional wisdom that industrialized farming reduces the risk of disease ...

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 ...

Agriculture is driving rapid evolutionary change, not just on farms but also in wild species in surrounding landscapes, new research has found. New research in Science is showing how the rise of ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

U.S. researchers are testing regenerative agrivoltaics at a farm in Southern California, combining solar panels with soil-restoring practices like composting, cover cropping, and no-till farming to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Learn how agricultural front groups in Canada use PR tactics to hide factory farm cruelty and mislead the public.

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 ...