For the last several decades, the default path for American farmers and ranchers has been increasing specialization of the agricultural activities on their operations. In 1949, American farmers ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KPTV) - A film focusing on keeping soil healthy through a unique type of farming is premiering in Portland this week. The producers of ‘Common Ground’ feel our current farm to consumer ...

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 ...

Grassland provides many services for humans, animals and nature, such as feed production, carbon storage and recreation. Researchers spent two years investigating permanent grassland, its utilization, ...

Fenji Materechera receives funding from the National Research Foundation of South Africa (NRF). Prof Mary Scholes holds a SARChI chair in Global Change and Systems Analysis which is funded by the ...

Chennai: The ICAR–Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture (CIBA) has developed an indigenous ‘super-intensive, precision and natural shrimp farming system' that can produce higher, disease-free ...