As a new state Farm Bureau president, I’ve been asked about my personal connection to farming hundreds of times by Farm Bureau members from all over the country. When I explain that I run an organic ...

Compost, for example, begins with crops, passes through the chicken coops, and returns to the fields as organic fertiliser, ...

Meat may have been once a week, and chicken was less often than that, a treat when company was expected. Perhaps only at Christmas. A roast chicken with potatoes was something to drool over. In 1960, ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (KDKA) — It's a classic chicken-and-egg dilemma. Organic chicken and organic egg, that is, as a lot of people won't buy organic food until it declines in price. But it won't decline in ...

Organic farming is farming which follows practices designed to minimise the human impact on the environment, while ensuring the agricultural system operates as naturally as possible. It is a way of ...

Amigo Bob Cantisano has farmed in California since the mid-1970s — an array that includes tree fruits and nuts, berries, vegetables and olives, plus flowers and nursery stock. The 65-year-old farmer ...

Editor’s Note: Verena Seufert is a postdoctoral fellow at the Liu Institute for Global Issues, University of British Columbia. Navin Ramankutty is a professor at the University of British Columbia.

Americans have a seemingly insatiable hunger for organic chickens. That’s helping to drive growth in the booming specialty industry for farm products. U.S. producers sold $750 million of organic ...

The productivity of organic farming is typically lower than that of comparable “conventional” farms. This difference is sometimes debated, but a recent USDA survey of organic agriculture demonstrates ...

Organic practices can reduce climate pollution produced directly from farming – which would be fantastic if they didn’t also require more land to produce the same amount of food. Clearing additional ...