On an early spring morning, a verdant field is flail-mowed at the Center for Arkansas Farms and Food. The vegetation growing there is a winter cover crop mix that has blanketed the earth throughout ...

Macey Keith says the program is designed to give students a safe environment to learn through hands-on experience before ...

A unique approach that combines solar energy with traditional farming practices is delivering remarkable results that might help to reshape agriculture forever. Off-grid solar technology now powers ...

In collaboration with scientists from 18 countries, a research team from Shanghai-based East China University of Science and ...

This centuries-old farming method could be the key to restoring soil, capturing carbon, and making food production more sustainable. A new study published in Ecological Processes reveals that ...

Humans have physically reconfigured half of the world’s land to grow just eight staple crops: maize (corn), soy, wheat, rice, cassava, sorghum, sweet potato and potato. They account for the vast ...

Farming immediately sparks images of lush fields of leafy greens under a blue sky, corn blowing in the wind, or majestic terraced rice paddies carved into mountainsides. Agriculture changed societies ...