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Matching irrigation and fertilizer to the ecosystem creates sustainable profits.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Nearly 50% of U.S. milk supply now under FARM umbrella.

Despite the difficult hurdles it’s faced building its digester system, California dairy is praised as ‘an environmental hero.’

California's carbon credit program may wind its way to Pennsylvania's dairy farms. Three local farms have installed manure digesters that will produce electricity by burning methane gas.

Fair Oaks Farms’ new fleet will be nation’s largest long-haul operation using renewable energy.

Oregon has adopted what some say are the strictest toxic water pollution standards in the United States.

The piece demonstrates the vital role dairies play in Pennsylvania’s rural communities

Good review and refresher for every dairy producer and dairy employee who administers antibiotics to cattle.

New online tools can help Wisconsin farmers know when conditions are right to spread manure on their land

Twelve Pennsylvania dairy producers will join peers from 11 other states in a large-scale project funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to help farmers reduce greenhouse gases produced by manure.

The back end of a cow provides the front end of the green-energy business that Kevin Maas is slowly expanding in Western Washington and Oregon. With missionary zeal, he and his brother Daryl build modest electricity-producing projects that help family-owned dairyfarms preserve their key role in the agricultural ecosystem.Their company, Farm Power, turns manure into electricity, fertilizer and bacteria-free animal bedding. The technology is fairly simple. What's hard about a manure digester is linking farmers, bankers, regulators, environmentalists and utilities.

New Mexico State University is partnering with Texas A&M and other universities across the country on a $9.75 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture to research bovine respiratory disease and how to reduce its prevalence in beef and dairy cattle.

New York dairy program has met or exceeded all of PAACO’s minimum standards

A large part of the conference will be tours of grazing dairies, none of which were damaged by the storm.

Gov. Deval L. Patrick yesterday visited Jordan Dairy Farm to highlight a project that produces methane gas from cow manure.

If seasonally calved and housed outside year round, HoJos will produce 6% fewer greenhouse gases.

With increasing demands for specialized meat, small processing plants have the opportunity to fill profitable niche markets.

It doesn't happen every day - not even every week - but once every couple of weeks there is a U.S. Foreign Agricultural Service attache report that makes me sit up and take notice.

After a trademark clash with the Idaho Potato Commission, Boise-based Idaho Fry Co., a new restaurant in the city, changed its name to Boise Fry Co.

(Jan. 5) In all your culinary training, you probably never were taught to squirt vegetables from a whipping cream dispenser onto an entree.

Groups tell Congress that historically tight supplies of grains and oilseeds make program change imperative.

Agreement focuses on the development of sustainability best management practices.

Bill Donald loves having his sons and young grandson on the ranch with him.

The world's rising temperature is slowing production of major food crops, and as global warming continues, the trend will significantly disrupt the economies of many countries and impair the health of their people, Stanford researchers say.

Balancing rations for nitrogen (protein) and energy is the key to a sound AI or ET program.

The cost of cutting down dairy ‘food miles.’

About half a dozen smaller dairyfarms in the Shenandoah Valley will be subject to inspection by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in the first half of May, valley dairy operators learned at an April 19 meeting with EPA officials.

Rural producers across Michigan have already tapped REAP to make their businesses more energy efficient and profitable.

State ag commissioner touts program that offers up to $25,000 to convert hot water from electric to solar.

What are you doing to lead your business with vision and integrity? I challenge you to ponder how you might lead in a new way.

The bio-engineered herd of dairy cattle produces more “human-like” milk that has 20% more milk fat and several key proteins.

The state agency that regulates Oregon's $473 million dairy industry has given kudos this month to three dairy operations that have gone above and beyond the call of duty in protecting water quality.

The High Plains Water District in the Texas panhandle is proposing to restrict water usage to 1.25 acre feet starting January 1, 2012.

Keep tabs on your employees, machinery and records with help from a location-based application called foursquare.

America’s largest cooperative of organic farmers has distributed a $5.3 million cash payment to members.

Vegetative buffers naturally reduce livestock odors.

Five deaths have occurred in last two years due to PTO accidents

Novus International, Inc., is introducing an innovative program to help dairy producers enhance the comfort and well-being of their herds

Immigration officials are cracking down on farm workers

Highlights from the 2011 Tomorrow's Top Producer Program.

The ag supply chain is looking back to the farm for sustainability.

FGD gypsum is a bona fide replacement for mined gypsum that is used to provide sulfur and calcium.

Supervisors use leadership skills to train, motivate and discipline the workers they manage.

Just over a month ago, the Department of Agriculture announced that it will allow American farmers to plant a genetically engineered version of alfalfa. The news also sparked an angry debate among organic advocates about what's most important in the organic label.

Solar panels lead the way, USDA’s first-ever nationwide renewable energy survey shows.