More than $186. 2 million is appropriated toward agriculture and agribusiness in North Carolina’s state budget.

Thanks to its cheap labor, year-round harvests and close ties with mega-buyer Beijing, Brazil has rapidly encroached on the US’s long-held position as the world’s top supplier of key crops. Now, it ...

Despite context-specific improvements, agriculture as it is currently practiced still has significant impacts on the environment – including soil erosion, air and water pollution, as well as GHG ...

Transforming agricultural practices to reduce the environmental impacts of global food production, preserve natural systems and ensure food security is a challenge but the way forward for a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marianne Krasny is a professor at Cornell University. Feb 03, 2025, 01:15pm EST Feb 04, 2025, 09:14am EST Dairy cattle in a ...

Vertical farms produce more food with fewer resources and less waste by delivering dense crop yields from stacked growing layers in controlled indoor environments. When most of us think about farming, ...

Picture an American farm in your mind. You might envision a red barn. Some cows. A field of corn. You might even see a tractor in this idealized landscape. Maybe a classic John Deere, its kelly green ...

Lee Nunn has the first tractor his grandfather ever bought sitting at his farm in Madison, about an hour east of Atlanta: a 1968 John Deere 4020 that's gleaming green and still runs like a dream. At ...

From the earliest days of our Republic, our farmers and agricultural communities have been the source of American success — enduring the elements and defying hard conditions to cultivate our land and ...

In 2024, Japan revised its Basic Law on Food, Agriculture and Rural Areas to prioritise food security amid global instability. Despite the amendment, Japanese agricultural policy continues to focus on ...

Agriculture may feed the world, but it is also contributing to global warming. Agriculture production uses about 70% of the Earth's fresh water and makes up about a third of greenhouse gas emissions.