Wool pelleting provides an income stream for shepherds’ waste wool, while giving vegetable farmers a valuable soil amendment.

Sweaters for the Soil

In the face of volunteer firefighter shortages, rural fire departments are leaning on the ag community for assistance.

Rural Firefighters to Farmers: Help Us Help You

How long can the agriculturally vital San Luis Valley hang on to its biggest asset — amid waves of existential threats?

Colorado’s Water Wars

Cornell researchers found New York beeswax swimming with pesticides. Beekeepers aren’t surprised, but with hive health at stake, calls for action are growing.

Mind Your Beeswax

More female farm owners and managers are managing stress with binge drinking, new research found. 

Women Farmers Are Using Alcohol to Cope

States frame prison agriculture programs as rehabilitative. But a class action lawsuit at Louisiana’s infamous Angola prison shines a light on the inherently punitive nature of incarcerated labor.

When Prisoners Perform Farm Work, Who Benefits?

At the height of the pandemic, farmers were forced to dump millions of pounds of perfectly edible produce. Four years later, they still need help with their surpluses.

Farmers Don’t Want to Throw Away Food

Livestock producers are feuding with black vultures, who sometimes attack and kill newborn cattle. But there’s more to the story.

Buzzard Kill

The bloody sport has been illegal for decades, but a powerful state lobbying group — and some sympathetic politicians — are pushing back.

Oklahoma Legislators Make a Case for Cockfighting

Solarpunk is the artistic response to cyberpunk’s gloom-and-doom vision of the future, where technology is harnessed for the power of good. 

Rejecting Dystopia: An Introduction to Solarpunk Farming

A police officer turned psychedelic mushroom farmer navigates his newly legal crop in Oregon.

Tripping Forward

Dan Egan’s latest book investigates how phosphorus fertilizer enables the world’s food system — exacting a great price from from all of us.

Of Hubris and Feces: The Human Story of Phosphorus

The U.S. Supreme Court will decide the entire fate of federal regulatory powers because of a seemingly niche case brought by two herring fishermen.

A Red Herring in the Supreme Court

In a push for increased sustainability, some high-end chefs are utilizing beef from old dairy cows. Yet for dairy farmers, a business case has yet to be made for promoting the product.

Old Cows, New Meat

Is the U.S. Running Out of Farmland?

Raise Less Corn and More Hell

The Wine of Wrath

For farm businesses with rigorous principles, Perpetual Purpose Trusts ensure your values are maintained even after you sell — or die.

When You Can’t Take It With You

The latest wave of avian influenza brought COVID-style modifications to the 2024 Pennsylvania Farm Show. 

Live Chick-Hatching in the Age of Plague

When Beth Hoffman and her husband moved from the Bay Area to farm sustainably in rural Iowa, they tried some things their neighbors had never seen. Did it ruffle any feathers?

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