LUCENA City, Quezon Province—Crow’s feet on many faces of people in the recent celebration of the Niyogyugan Festival here reveal not only the deep tradition of farming but also unearth a conundrum ...

Ploughing and tilling on hilly slopes is causing farm soils to thin and threatens future crop yields, a new study published in Nature Food finds. Ploughing and tilling on hilly slopes is causing farm ...

AGOTIME BEH, Ghana — After he graduated from university, Vozbeth Kofi Azumah was reluctant to tell anyone — even his mother — what he planned to do for a living. “I’m a farmer,” he said, buzzing his ...

In southern EU countries such as Greece, Spain and Italy, most freshwater goes to agriculture — and droughts are becoming increasingly common. Here are five concrete ways to make irrigation smarter, ...

The family farmer in the age of industrial farming, the yoga of sex, cyberhacking and biometrics, and the future of robotic farming. “A key component of the practice is not tilling the soil. Untilled ...

Watering hundreds of apple and peach trees, weeding gardens chock full of eggplant and okra, and mowing 11 acres of land is tall order for any farmer. Just imagine doing all that at age 74. As the ...

Pete Boecker works hard farming land that isn`t his, making money that he gives away. Using seven antique tractors along with an ancient pull-type combine and a range of other old farm machinery, he ...