Data-driven storytelling for modern agriculture.

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Culture
Praise the Lard?
By Daniel Walton
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A Taste of the Forbidden Fruit
By Ben Seal
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Naming Crop Varieties Is a Little Treat
By John Loeppky
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Hot Potatoes
By Daniel Walton
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What Does It Take to Save American Heritage Wine?
By Kristel Tjandra
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Can America Make Produce Safe Again?
By Diana Kruzman
Studies
The Funny Little Plant That Could Upend Agriculture
By Kristen Schmitt
Studies
In Praise of “Plant Vaccines”
By Moira Donovan
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Is It Time for a Sod Checkoff?
By Lela Nargi
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Growing Grapes in the High Desert
By Taylor Hartman
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We Can Grow Our Own Hazelnuts, Finally
By Ben Seal
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For Citrus Growers, The Way Forward May Not Be Citrus At All
By Emma Glassman-Hughes
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Mining Bitcoin, Growing Tomatoes
By Luke Carneal
Farm Finance
Row Crop Farmers — and Their Lenders — Prepare for Deepening Downturn
By Donavyn Coffey
Supply Chain
Domestic Flower Farmers Strive to Bloom
By Rosamund Lannin
Sustainability
The California-to-Arkansas Farmer Pipeline
By Lela Nargi
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The Seaweed Industry Is Booming. Why Is it so Hard to Start a Farm in California?
By Katie Watkins
Perspective
Making the Case for Sorghum
By Liz Susman Karp
Supply Chain
Farmers Aren’t Keeping Up With Oat Milk Demand
By Shefali Kapadia
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An Amish-Chinese Mushroom Collaboration
By Laura Reiley
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Growing Better Soybeans, Not More
By Jack McGovan
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North America’s Original Buzz
By Daniel Walton
Supply Chain
From If to When: The Rapid Growth of America’s Truffle Industry
By Emma Castleberry
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The Black Farmers Growing Rice
By Liz Susman Karp
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You Don’t Know Turmeric
By Ali Aas & Scott Gordon Bleicher
Supply Chain
Farmers Don’t Want to Throw Away Food
By Emma Glassman-Hughes
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Do You Know How Tomatoes Taste?
By Ethan Freedman
Land
Finding Liberation Through Farming
By Kirsten Lie-Nielsen
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“Adapt or Die”
By Hannah Macready
Supply Chain
The Supply Chain for Witches
By Sara Murphy
Sustainability
Crop Insurance Faces a Reckoning
By Lois Parshley
Sustainability
Weave Your Own Coffin
By Sara Murphy
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Growing Pains
By Kirsten Lie-Nielsen
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In a Bid for Food Sovereignty, Hawaiian Farmers Return to Indigenous Roots
By Megan Ulu-Lani Boyanton
Environment
In Defense of Frost
By Lewis Kendall
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Made in the Shade
By Daniel Walton
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Everyone Should Grow Bamboo! No One Should Grow Bamboo!
By Lela Nargi
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The Curious Economics of Pick-Your-Own Farms
By Shelby Vittek
Legislation
Has the Time for Checkoff Reform Finally Arrived?
By Lela Nargi
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Maslins, a Method of Planting Grains You’ve Probably Never Heard of
By Liz Susman Karp
Sustainability
Embracing the Toilet-to-Farm Irrigation Model
By Jen A. Miller
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We’re Losing Our Seed Breeders
By Shea Swenson
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The Small Southern Farm Working to Forecast the Crops of the Future
By Shelby Vittek
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How Wildfire Smoke Shrinks and Shrivels Potatoes
By Shelby Vittek
Legislation
Why Does the Farm Bill Consider Fruits and Vegetables “Specialty Crops?”
By Lela Nargi
Technology
Counterfeit Seeds Are Taking Root Worldwide
By Jesse Hirsch
Supply Chain
A Domestic Vanilla Industry Is Slowly Unfurling in Florida
By Shelby Vittek
Sustainability
After a crippling drought, California has enough water to grow rice this year. Its troubles aren’t over.
By Lela Nargi
Legislation
U.S. and Mexico Have 1 Week Left to Settle Corn Clash
By John McCracken
Supply Chain
Rebuilding North America’s Flax-to-Fiber Supply Chain
By Alexandra Jones
Sustainability
Making Wine With the Help of Bugs, Raptors, and Livestock
By Kathleen Willcox
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The Race to Breed a Better Potato Chip
By Shelby Vittek
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Bean Growers Are Eager to Rebuild a Once-Powerful Market
By Shelby Vittek
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Can Growing Leaves for Cigar Wrappers Save Struggling Farmers?
By Shelby Vittek
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Perennial Wheat Is Not Going to Save Us — Not Yet, at Least
By Shelby Vittek
Technology
Tech Companies Are Pushing Precision Agriculture Into American Vineyards
By Shelby Vittek
Farm Finance
The Barely Profitable World of the Christmas Tree Grower
By Chris Chafin
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Texas Lost More Than Half of This Year’s Cotton Crop to Drought. Could Hemp Be the Salvation?
By Lela Nargi
Environment
Will Rising Temperatures Force Cranberry Production to Move North?
By Shelby Vittek
Labor
“Corn Sweat” Is on the Rise — And It May Make Farmwork Less Safe
By Whitney Bauck
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Going Broke Growing Hemp
By Chris Chafin
Studies
U.S. Grain Farmers Are Leaving $2.6 Billion on the Field
By Jesse Hirsch
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Iowa Agronomists “Very Concerned” About Invasive Asian Copperleaf
By Jesse Hirsch
Sustainability
Can No-Till Farming Go Big?
By Richard Robinson & Caroline Noble
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Teff Gains Ground as a Dual-Income Crop
By Richard Bednarski
Supply Chain
Ag Exports Bottlenecked at Oakland Port Despite USDA Efforts
By Veronica Irwin
Supply Chain
Drought and COVID-19: Factors Beyond Ukraine Invasion Driving Wheat Price Spike
By Lars Schonander
Supply Chain
Grain, Fuel, and Fertilizer: How the Invasion of Ukraine is Affecting American Farmers
By IV Hendrix