Large-scale family farms, which have more than $1 million in annual gross cash farm income, account for 50% of U.S.

Over the years Seth Watkins has won praise for the way he farms. Pinhook Farm, in southern Iowa, grows diverse crops without commercial fertilizers and with limited pesticides. It also tries to tune ...

Since the 1990s, hog farms have gotten bigger, more specialized and more productive, according to a new report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Environmental Research Service. The number of ...

A new study shows how much the size of a farming operation affects labor needs. For crop farms, the number of labor hours per acre drops significantly the bigger the operation is, according to the ...

Jim Durst is a proud owner of a farm that manages to remain completely organic and chemical pesticide-free in a world that relies heavily on methods of farming that negatively impact the environment. ...

A few years back, the Internet was abuzz with the idea of vertical farms running down the sides of urban towers, with the idea that growing crops where they’re actually consumed could eliminate the ...

Read full article: Four years since war broke out, Ukrainian refugee shares story of journey to Metro Detroit A young Connor Hellebuyck attended Walled Like Northern High School. From Walled Lake ...

Will the coming farm bill support big farms or small? That was a question that repeatedly came up during a Senate Agriculture committee hearing Thursday featuring Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, ...