The industrialization of agriculture has led to an increasing dependence on non-locally sourced agricultural inputs. Hence, shocks in the availability of agricultural inputs can be devastating to food ...

Agriculture is vital for economic growth and living standards, with the food processing sector playing a key role in enhancing product exports. In developing nations, food processing grows due to ...

For years, both scientists and farmers have debated whether the use of cover crops—plants used to cover the ground after harvesting of main crops—have a positive or negative impact on subsequent crop ...

Sometimes it feels like growers wear more hats than equipment salespeople give out. And while you can get by with knowing a little about a lot, you also can’t be an expert in everything. Sometimes you ...

Front yards transformed to tiny crop farms in Los Angeles provide vegetables to dozens of families and use a fraction of the water needed by grass. By Cara Buckley Photographs by Alisha Jucevic On a ...