Careful timing ensures crops can handle a little heat. But recently, sudden heat waves and long-lasting ones in already warm ...

The industrial standard in agriculture involves heavy use of herbicides and pesticides to meet the bottom line of production.

Maybe you’ve seen them in a specialty shop, or tasted the tangy leaves in your favorite curry, but the kaffir lime, as it’s commonly known in North America and beyond, is in serious need of a name ...

Plant your trees in late fall to early spring. In addition to full sunlight, fig trees appreciate a lot of room. If you’re planting more than one tree, make sure they have 15 to 20 feet between them.

And there’s stewardship value in farm survival. “Keeping these 450 acres of land open is good for property values, but it’s also good for groundwater, wildlife habitat, food security and climate ...

The embryos were created from the semen of a bull named Cosmo. The SRY gene he passed on wasn’t developed through classic selective breeding, however, but a technology seemingly appropriated from ...

When you think of improving the soil, you may imagine planting cover crops or utilizing minimal tillage systems that allow microorganisms to thrive. And while these practices can help make the soil a ...

Earlier this month, the FDA approved genome-edited cattle for use in meat production. They were bred with climate change in mind, and they have extremely slick, short hair, which is said to help the ...

As she walks amongst the sea of green, yellow and orange leaves of a chestnut tree orchard, carefully collecting chestnut burrs from the trees, Sara Fitzsimmons, director of restoration for the ...

Getting the gear In response to the knowledge that a lot of wool goes to waste, the national Fibershed group started a waste wool working group. A member of this group was pelletizing it for a soil ...

For Joseph Goni, a fourth-generation dairy farmer in Tulare County, California, the region’s historic floods were part of family lore. As such, his grandfather, who lived through the 1955 deluge, ...

Soil salinization occurs when seawater from floods eventually evaporates but leaves behind its salt content, which accumulates over years in the soil. With enough flooding, the soil on farms could ...