Customers expect perfect Vidalia onions. And perfection takes planning and scheduling in the field. Mess with a farmer’s schedule, though, and you’re asking for trouble.

Modern Farmer visits Michelle Bolt and her miniature livestock at Tanglewood Farm in northern Georgia.

Consumers’ savviness towards and demand for the choicest fruit, research suggests, means the industry has to upgrade its qualitative testing for firmness,

But growing food commercially to feed hundreds or thousands of people isn't cheap. Farming is expensive. Tractors cost tens of thousands of dollars, barns don't build themselves, and you can't grow marketing materials. Like any business, starting a farm from scratch takes resources.

While it's still a small market, pastured poultry -- a method of raising poultry on open pastureland -- has flourished in recent years as consumer demand for humanely-raised, antib...

Stanley Culpepper has spent most of the last decade fighting a monster.

When it comes to beef and poultry, pathogens like salmonella and E. coli O157:H7 can be killed by proper handling and cooking in the kitchen. But with lettuce and spinach, which are consumed raw, the foodborne fate is sealed in, literally, on the farm during harvest and processing.

Harman Johar, a recent graduate of the University of Georgia Athens, and just a regula guy — except he has a few extra thousand roommates. And he just scored $2 million to begin his organic bug business.

A young oysterman in Georgia has found a way to turn ugly wild oysters into boutique bivalves. But will the industry follow suit?