Education Outside turns school gardens into classrooms. And today, kids across San Francisco get to study their science curriculum outside.

When farmers experience crop lose due to extreme weather, crop insurance is there to help them out. In many ways, the insurance that farmers buy is not unlike car, home or health i...

Crop circles, talking pigs, hearing voices in the field--the things Hollywood farmers have to put up with!

Seattle Tilth, an organization that advocates and teaches organic food growing, started the first Master Composter Program in the U.S. in 1986. The program has changed over the yea...

Dairy cows never take a day off. That means dairy farmers had to keep a similar work schedule — until robotic milking came along.

Scientists suspect weight-gain supplements called beta-agonists are likely responsible for a surge in cows arriving for slaughter at U.S. meatpacking plants in weakened states, rep...

Many of the issues with aquaculture, or fish farming, are well documented. Farmed fish compete for space against wild fish, and they carry new parasites and diseases. They contribu...

But what about GMO seeds that could radically reduce the use of pesticides, and help farmers in developing countries? Would that shift the perception of genetically modified organi...

Sick of seeing “drip tape,” the plastic tubing used for short-term drip irrigation, go to waste, Sean Coronis hit upon an idea: weave it into bags. And thus the AgBag was born.