The Plant's vertical farming techniques don't require chemical fertilizers. Get the scoop on some hot-topic environmental current events — including a repurposed plant in Chicago using sustainable ...

Humans have been turning seeds and soil into food for thousands of years. We first started cultivating edible plants at the end of the last Ice Age, roughly 12,000 years ago. Ploughing made this ...

Much of the scallop farming techniques used in the U.S. derive from practices in Japan, where scallops have long been a part of the country's seafood industry. Researchers from the University of Maine ...

A new study of hemp microbes may lead to more sustainable farming methods, using nature to boost the growth of the plant which has become increasingly popular for its versatile uses: CBD-rich ...

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 ...

A new study challenges the universal land-saving claims of vertical farming, finding that there is no one size fits all approach for land use, food security and sustainable agriculture. Faced with ...

Online and hybrid auctions have become more common in the past five years, but in-person and traditional methods are still popular.

American farm photos that prove this land was made for you & me  In the golden fields of amber grain and the endless rows of corn that stretched to distant horizons, American agriculture wrote […] ...