2019 - Page 3 of 55 - Modern Farmer
Colorado Becomes First State with Right-to-Repair Law

Last week, Colorado governor Jared Polis signed the aptly named Consumer Right to Repair Agricultural... (more)

Emily Baron Cadloff
May 4, 2023
Solar Projects on Farmland Meet Community Opposition in the Midwest

When an energy company proposed a 175-megawatt solar array in Greene County, Ohio last year,... (more)

Patrick Cooley
April 20, 2023
Who Will Take Over the Family Farm? We Want to Hear From...

What’s to become of the family farm? As America’s farming population gets older, an increasing... (more)

Modern Farmer
March 13, 2023
‘Communities, Not Corporations’: Farmers March for Climate Action in D.C.

Hundreds of farmers and farmworkers gathered in Washington, D.C. this week to demand that Congress... (more)

Marin Scotten
March 10, 2023
Why This Company Says the Popular H-2A Visa is Overdue for a...

In parts of rural Mexico, there’s a visa that farmworkers treat like gold—yet nobody knows... (more)

Naoki Nitta
February 15, 2023
These Gardens Started When Travel Slowed. Now, They’re Spurring Tourism.

Immaculately tilled rows, prodigiously verdant leafy greens, towering tomato plants, sprawling zucchini and three more... (more)

Alisha McDarris
February 13, 2023
Farmworkers in Canada Hack Menus, Protest for Better Labor Conditions

In an increasingly urbanized society,  most consumers live detached from the story of their food... (more)

Lindsay Campbell
February 11, 2023
The Rise of Virtual Farmers Markets

When Eat Local Sudbury Co-op closed back in 2018, Chantal Lewington and a group of... (more)

Leah Borts-Kuperman
January 31, 2023
California Farms and Farmworkers Attempt to Recover From Record Floods

For Manuel, an orchard worker in California, this should normally be a busy time of... (more)

Naoki Nitta
January 24, 2023
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