Vertical farms have had successes producing fresh greens and herbs, tomatoes and strawberries—all necessary and delicious crops but not the most calorie-dense. That honor falls to cereals and grains, ...

The perennial grain can produce an annual crop even as it stays in the ground for up to four years. Its deep root system helps pull carbon out of the air and makes it more resistant to floods and ...

Bairds Malt’s data shows that fertiliser use and soil management are the biggest sources of carbon emissions on barley farms, accounting for around 38 percent of total CO₂ per tonne. When emissions ...

Farmers across Scotland say they are ‘bitterly disappointed’, ‘confused’, and ‘let down’ by the outcome of the Scottish Government’s Future Farming Investment Scheme (FFIS), with many claiming there ...

For three years, Nathanael Gonzales-Siemens drove up California’s coast for 14 hours every month for a routine task: milling his grain into flour. “I was literally not able to find a flour mill at my ...

Mr Munro said the gross price of malting barley — which his farm has produced for the Scotch whisky industry for over 240 ...

STEWARTVILLE — Plenty of rain combined with high commodity prices gave a boost to grain farming in southeastern Minnesota in 2011. Olmsted/South Wabasha Corn and Soybean Grower Association board ...

As the global conversation around climate change intensifies, the agricultural sector is emerging as both a contributor to the problem and a potential part of the solution. In this interview, we ...

Thanks to another season of high yields, the demand for more robust on-farm grain storage and drying solutions is greater than ever before. Rodie Jelleberg, grain dryer expert at Superior Grain ...

This story was produced in partnership with the Food & Environment Reporting Network Carmen Fernholz started farming organically in 1972 — before the phrase “organic farming” was really even a thing.