Over the years Seth Watkins has won praise for the way he farms. Pinhook Farm, in southern Iowa, grows diverse crops without commercial fertilizers and with limited pesticides. It also tries to tune ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Living near a poultry farm in North Carolina can reduce a home’s value by up to 30%, according to a Duke University study. That ...

A new study shows how much the size of a farming operation affects labor needs. For crop farms, the number of labor hours per acre drops significantly the bigger the operation is, according to the ...

You wouldn’t typically know it from the headlines, but a large majority of farms in the United States are still family farms.

Since the 1990s, hog farms have gotten bigger, more specialized and more productive, according to a new report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Environmental Research Service. The number of ...

Jim Durst is a proud owner of a farm that manages to remain completely organic and chemical pesticide-free in a world that relies heavily on methods of farming that negatively impact the environment. ...

Space-saving, low-input, pest-free: vertical farming is often regarded as a solution to many of conventional agriculture’s woes. But the findings of a new study draw a question mark over its prospects ...

In a stretch of Northern California known for scenic shorelines and celebrated vineyards, hundreds of brown-bodied hens waddle around a large barn at Weber Family Farms. "You provide them a ...