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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.

Ricky Preiss and his family operate a peach orchard in the Texas Hill Country near Stonewall. With low rainfall, the harvest is smaller but sweeter this year.

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.

Julie Barrett of Maple Lane Farm in Lyndeborough, N.H., talks about her apple orchard operations.

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.

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.