Starting an organic farm requires space, seeds, livestock and money. Fortunately, some financial help is available for people hoping to establish an organic farming operation. Organic farms grow ...

Validated biotechnology that enhances dairy farm digester and non-digester operations while reducing nutrient runoff ...

Although organic farming has gained an immense amount of momentum over the last two decades, the term was actually coined back in the 1940s. English agriculturalist Walter James first used it as a way ...

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Twelve years ago, rice breeders with Lundberg Family Farms crossed two rice plant “parents” in hopes of cultivating a better black pearl rice plant. After growing generations and generations of ...

Champions of organic farming have long portrayed it as friendlier to humans and the earth. But a new study in a California county found a surprising effect as their acreage grew: Nearby conventional ...

Organic farmers in Idaho are holding a conference this week to tout the benefits of a natural approach to agriculture. After a five-year hiatus, the Grower's Own Organic Farming Conference is back and ...

Organic farmer Jack Fehr produces soybeans without chemical fertilizers or pesticides near West Bend, Iowa. (Photo by Keith Schneider/The New Lede) WEST BEND, Iowa – People who think seriously about ...