Cover cropping involves growing various plant varieties between cash crop rotations to ensure continuous soil coverage. This practice improves soil water infiltration, builds soil organic matter, ...

Plan to assess new pest management practices this season and then adjust to reduce rootworm risk in next year’s corn crop.

The world’s population continues to expand — reaching 6 billion at the dawn of the 21st Century and nearly 10 billion projected by 2050. Exploding population and rising protein consumption are driving ...

Fires in Cleveland helped spark the day of action that we all know as Earth Day back in 1970. The Cuyahoga River fires were a symbol of our collective failure that could only be changed by collective ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – As technology continues to evolve, so does the need for new farm management practices. This year's Indiana Farm Management Tour, July 5-6, highlights five of Indiana's top ...

The Lash family of Sewickley Township knows a few things about keeping a farm going. They’ve kept their family farm running for more than two centuries and recently were named Conservation Farmers of ...

Regenerative farming, which centers on building soil health, is one promising pathway for decreasing agriculture’s carbon footprint. Meg Wilcox Jason Johnson, Stonyfield Organic’s farmer relationship ...

Farmers face risk every day from production and markets to people, finances, and the broader business environment. The Risk ...

Consumers now are gaining awareness of the sustainability behind the food they buy. In response to this, many food companies have made public commitments to science-based sustainability goals. Many of ...

February 9, 2021 — Jason Johnson, Stonyfield Organic’s farmer relationship manager, fires up the AgriCORE soil sampling tool in a pasture with sweeping views of central Maine’s rolling hillsides at ...