There is an opportunity for organic farms to remain profitable in a period of rising costs and declining profitability for ...

Prairie du Rocher, Ill. – On a cold winter day in Illinois, three little pigs are resting in a three-sided shed. They have plenty of space to trot around, as they do when Jennifer Duensing approaches.

Champions of organic farming have long portrayed it as friendlier to humans and the earth. But a new study in a California county found a surprising effect as their acreage grew: Nearby conventional ...

Organic Valley has inked its first agreements and distributed payments to compensate its dairy farmers for reducing their carbon footprint. The cooperative’s carbon “insetting” program was two years ...

BEING NEGOTIATED RIGHT NOW IN WASHINGTON. ONE ROW, I GOT THREE AND A HALF BIG TOTES OF ARUGULA OUT OF IT. IF ORGANIC FARMERS WEREN’T SO BUSY WORKING, THEY’D HAVE MORE TIME TO BE OUTRAGED. THE LAST ...

Twelve years ago, rice breeders with Lundberg Family Farms crossed two rice plant “parents” in hopes of cultivating a better black pearl rice plant. After growing generations and generations of ...

You shop local and buy organic when you can, but how can you tell if your farmers market produce is really organic? There have been a few scandals in recent years where farmers market vendors were ...

Certified Naturally Grown offers farmers a cheaper and less time-consuming option to communicate how they produce their food. But terms like “natural” on food labels can be confusing for consumers.