In early September, dairy farmers begin harvesting corn silage to store as feed for their cows and young stock. Corn silage is made by chopping the entire corn plant into small pieces and allowing ...

Bossie Cow Farm, near Random Lake, is an example of the kind of farm that makes up the nearly 2,000 certified organic dairy farms in La Farge-based Organic Valley cooperative. And it must be a ...

A perfect storm of factors has lead to the biggest crisis for American farmers in decades. Here's what it's like to be an American farmer in 2019.

Small farm, Big dream. ... He bought a corn seeder from Kallstrom Corn in Ephrata, Wash., but plants and harvests everything else by hand, employing up to six people at the season’s peak.

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Slogans such as “farm-to-table” and “support local” may be all the rage these days, but they do not highlight how difficult it is to thrive as a small, local farm. Especially on islands ...

A microenvironment on a modern farm is the small-scale environment surrounding a single seed or plant. Using big tech like AI, sensors and connectivity, farmers can use bring the same precision ...

The USDA defines "small" as a farm with gross sales under $50,000, and 82 percent of the farms selling directly meet that definition. But the majority — 56 percent — don't have even $10,000 in ...

Shi Mei and her husband earn a decent enough living by growing corn and millet on their small farm in eastern China's Shandong province. In 2021, they diversified by investing in solar energy ...