The novel coronavirus delayed the arrival of seasonal immigrants who normally help harvest U.S. wheat, leaving farmers to depend on high school students, school bus drivers, laid-off oilfield workers and others to run machines that bring in the crop.

Required by the Montreal borough of Saint Laurent to install a green roof to offset carbon emissions, IGA, a grocery store started growing 30+ kinds of organic veggies on its roof to sell it in the produce section downstairs. The project is not only profitable but truly 'local' in nature. The idea saves the nutritional value of the produce lost in transportation, improved the water usage by utilizing the water from the store's dehumidification system...

Restoring up to 2.2 million square miles to nature

The US Environmental Protection Agency is due in federal court on Tuesday to answer allegations that it broke the law to support a Monsanto system that has triggered “widespread” crop damage over the last few summers and continues to threaten farms across the country.

One way that farms can handle shortages of protective gear for workers is by switching to less-toxic pest control methods.

One Wednesday in early March, Abra Morawiec realized something seismic was happening at her farm stand. The month had been pretty quiet at the Feisty Acres table in the Union Square Greenmarket in Manhattan. But that day, at the very start of social distancing, she had sold out of everything by 2 p.m. “I had to go home three hours early,” Ms. Morawiec said. After wondering whether her small farm on the North Fork of Long Island would survive the pandemic, this was good news.

Farmers across the Midwest are euthanizing their stocks of pigs and chickens because of a backlog caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

Anew report from the (NCBA) the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association an animal agriculture meat lobby group is projecting an over $13 billion dollar loss due to COVID-19. The report compiled by a team of economists will be used to determine how much government aid relief the industry will receive because of the pandemic.

Climate breakdown means conditions that wrought devastation across Great Plains could return to region

In the Abruzzo region of Italy, harvesting the lucrative spice is a centuries-old tradition, infused with a deep-seated passion for the land and its history.

Covid-19 has laid bare many flaws of industrialized animal agriculture. Plant- and cell-based alternatives offer a more resilient solution.

At least 30% of EU land and seas will be protected by 2030 to halt the decline of plant and animal species and restore carbon sinks to address climate change, under European Commission plans. The proposed biodiversity strategy, initially due to be released late March and delayed by the coronavirus pandemic, was published on Wednesday.

The use of antibiotics in animals on US factory farms is increasing despite warnings that the practice risks spreading deadly superbugs. Figures obtained by The Mail on Sunday reveal that the sale of antibiotics to American farms jumped from 5,559 tons in 2017 to 6,036 tons in 2018 – a 9 per cent rise.

Perdue, Vilsack and leading agricultural groups gathered in a Maryland barn to talk about the farm-country issue that dare not speak its name.

Look for them on the Mars menu someday.

For some farmers in New Zealand, Britain and Australia, drones are not just a toy – they’re an increasingly vital tool

Scientists Say They're Close to Making A Spicy Tomato

Rising neonicotinoid seed treatments applied to corn and soy in US agricultural landscapes during the past 20 years are the primary driver of the change, the researchers found.

The study, by a team from the University of Sydney, discovered that dairy cows respond to positive and negative emotional situations and have their own individual moo.

Greenhouses and solar panels both need to be placed in areas with a lot of sunlight – so why not combine the two? Semi-transparent solar cells could potentially be built into the glass roof panels of greenhouses, capturing light at wavelengths that plants don’t use anyway. Now, researchers at North…