On Thursday morning cold, cloudy, and windy weather conditions greeted visitors to Jon and Tracy TePoel's dairy farm in Douglas County's rural Maple area. The visitors had come from across northern ...

SKANEATELES, N.Y. — Farmer Jeremy Brown taps the nose of a young calf. “I love the ones with the pink noses,” he says. This pink-nosed animal is just one of about 3,200 cattle at Twin Birch Dairy in ...

Farmer Jeremy Brown taps the nose of a young calf. “I love the ones with the pink noses,” he says. This pink-nosed animal is just one of about 3,200 cattle at Twin Birch Dairy in Skaneateles, New York ...

As the only government-administered label that addresses farming practices, the organic emblem is vitally important. There literally is no other badge that carries as much weight. USDA certified ...

Prairie du Rocher, Ill. – On a cold winter day in Illinois, three little pigs are resting in a three-sided shed. They have plenty of space to trot around, as they do when Jennifer Duensing approaches.

BISMARCK, N.D. - North Dakota Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring says applications are now being accepted for reimbursement of organic certification costs through the U.S. Department of ...

Organic food, however, doesnt come without its downsides. The most obvious disadvantage is cost. Organic foods tend to be considerably more expensive than their conventionally grown counterparts, ...

Fast-growing pantry staples brand SIMPLi is reinvigorating sleepy center-store categories and unlocking additional distribution in thousands of regional and independent grocers nationwide after ...

Fair Trade Certified. Certified Organic. Non-GMO. Certified Humane–we’re used to seeing these labels scattered over products touting their ethical and environmental backgrounds. But the brands and ...

The $35 billion organic-food industry has nearly tripled in size in the past decade, challenging the Agriculture Department’s ability to monitor the more than 25,000 farms and other organizations that ...

The abrupt decision by New Hampshire to stop certifying organic livestock farms will not have a big effect on the state’s agriculture but it shows that maintaining food production is a complicated ...

Driving up a dirt road to the small produce stand at Bear Butte Gardens just outside Sturgis, one would never imagine the ...