Whether you garden, farm or do both, weeds are a perennial problem, and my Wisconsin garden and farm fields are no exception.
Controlling weeds is all about ba...
The world is full of woe: We're still suffering from the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic; economic uncertainty and political anxiety dominate the hea...
Cathie Martin has a good way of describing the critics of GMOs. She calls them "the W.W.W.s." She doesn't mean the World Wide Web, but rather the Well, the Weal...
Political and business leaders along with individuals focused on our global food system gathered in Rome and virtually this week for the Food Systems Summit spo...
Access to technology has made me a better farmer---and my decades-long experience with it has changed how I think about growing food.
I've learned that there...
Meet the world's new farming buzzword: "agroecology."
I'd try to define it, but "agroecology" is one of those slippery terms whose meaning shifts depending on ...
The first XPrize reached for the stars. What if the solution to the latest one lies in the soil beneath our feet?
In January, entrepreneur Elon Musk promised in...
Sometimes the greatest discoveries are made by accident.
We weren't specifically looking for a new species of bee on our family farm in Brazil---but we found o...
Water shortages threaten to devastate India's food security, driving down winter harvests by 20 percent nationwide and by as much as 68 percent in key regions, ...
Farmers and artists share something in common: They devote themselves to acts of creation.
Farmers plant seeds and nurture them into crops that fill fields that...
