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A new book by Michele Payn-Knoper aims to help food producers and consumers build meaningful relationships and to facilitate positive conversations.

Dixon Ridge Farms taps into a process called bio-gasification to create its own on-farm energy.

Robotic feeders work well as long as calves are checked frequently.

Though agriculture has become increasingly volatile during the last decade and risk management has never been more critical to farm and ranch sustainability, farmers are lucky.

Dried distillers’ grains are familiar to livestock producers, who use them as feed. But an Alaska brewer has figured out a way to use them to make more beer.

Center-pivot irrigation systems, once thought to be suitable only for Kansas, Nebraska or California’s San Joaquin Valley, are going up in the eastern Corn Belt.

Novozymes has signed an agreement with Natural Industries Inc., which is researching how soil microorganisms can help combat weeds, insects and other pests.

The subsurface irrigation method, first adopted in the U.S. for vegetables, fruits and nuts, is supplementing and even replacing center-pivot systems for field crops.

Herbicide carryover is something you’ll want to give thought to as you plan for the 2013 crop season.

Researchers at North Carolina State University and USDA–Agricultural Research Service (USDA–ARS) are studying the way carbon moves in and out of the soil and its role in how much carbon dioxide (CO2) is released into the atmosphere.