Sustainability
After 60 years of chemical control, farming is entering an era of ecological control, driven by consumer demand and resistance issues found in farmer fields.
The challenge of feeding a growing population in an efficient and environmentally friendly manner is changing the way agriculture does business. AgDay’s Michelle Rook reports.
PALM DESERT, Calif. — Produce companies who ignore measuring sustainability do so at their increasing peril, panelists said at The Packer’s West Coast Produce Expo May 10.
The square table is set with spotless silverware and white cloth napkins. Ginger gusts rise from the oven and sweep through the one-room restaurant promising culinary delights. The room echoes with murmurs of gastronomical mirth. No, this isn’t a five-star restaurant in the Upper East Side of Manhattan. This is the Traveler’s Table, deep in the Ozarks, near Davisville, Mo.
The storage units of Produce Row, just north of downtown St. Louis, are a labyrinth of shifting temperatures and changing scents. The room with tomatoes is a comfortable 55 degrees, while the room with lettuce and carrots is a frigid 34.
Old North St. Louis looks a lot like the other areas in St. Louis City. Battered red brick buildings line the streets that stretch as far as the eye can see, and faded signs cling to old churches and corner stores. For this reason, the building at the corner of 13th Street and St. Louis Avenue seems unremarkable, but the brightly colored banner hung across the top signals something new.
From afar, it looks like a caravan. Dozens of white tents shelter last night’s pickings of green beans, apples and squash from the whipping wind of mid-October. Children chase each other in an adjacent field. Fiddle music fills the air. Old friends meet in the walkway, chatting about the day’s finds. All in the name of local food.
Matching irrigation and fertilizer to the ecosystem creates sustainable profits.
This concept tractor has evolved and will be put to work in Summer 2012 on an Italian farm.
Meet Gibb Steele, of Hollandale, Miss., one of the winners of Upstream Heroes.
To support our population jump from 7 billion to 9 billion by 2050, a 70% increase in food production is required.
Hunger is complicated, but that isn’t stopping farmer and philanthropist Howard G. Buffett from devoting his namesake foundation to putting an end to the problem.
The Department of Natural Resources said Thursday it will reconsider a key permit for a large dairyfarm proposed in Adams County after the agency received an analysis by a University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point hydrogeologist who concluded the farm is likely to reduce local water supplies. The DNR had made a preliminary determination that groundwater pumping by the 4, 200-cow Richfield Dairy would not harm local conditions.
New research advances cattlemen’s commitment to sustainably raising beef.
M&M Feedlot near Parma, Idaho, takes manure from dairy replacement heifer corrals and composts it on-site to benefit area farmers, consumers and the environment.
Ken Ferrie answers a farmer’s question about nitrogen running off in his farm tile.
A few tweaks can improve the efficiency of your farm shop, grain bin system and machinery.
Dr. Gebisa Ejeta’s sorghum hybrids have increased the production and availability of one of the world’s five principal grains.
Ryan Kirby, the 2011 Tomorrow’s Top Producer Sustainability Award Winner, works hard to preserve his farm for the next generation.
Roundup Ready varieties were generally in the upper half of the yield range in Arlington, Wis., trial.
Northern Plains farmers could soon have winter wheat options available.
U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance is working to help consumers and farmers come to the table to have a valuable conversation. They are calling this town hall-style meeting Food Dialogues.
The global agribusiness company has pledged $10 billion for research and development to bring 4,000 new products to the global market by the year 2020.
Bayer CropScience and Ducks Unlimited have teamed up with a new program that creates duck habitat out of winter wheat fields.
California researchers have found a way to triple the amount of starch that is stored in plant stems.
The cut-off date for the current Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) ranking period has been extended to January 27, 2012. Producers may be eligible for CSP payments.
A new study finds the Great Plains region is currently a “carbon sink,” meaning it takes up more carbon than it emits.