With the popularity of urban farming some environmental scientists say the problem of lead contamination could be a ticking time bomb.

For Canadian artist Becka Viau, agriculture is a muse, and hay is art.

What happens when pigs figure out how to get access to booze? Nothing pretty.

There are many reasons why growing numbers – primarily farmers and knitters – are fixated on the Icelandic sheep. The breed, with fine-grained meat and a wooly coat that is both light-as-air and rugged, has retained one of the purest bloodlines in the agricultural world and carries a romantic and wild history.

Canadian farmers have long been dependent on imported seeds from Europe and the USA. The Bauta Family Initiative on Canadian Seed Security, which launched in February, plans to change that.

Right now, in hundreds of American high schools, teams of eager co-eds, in black and yellow varsity jackets with their names stitched on the back, are training for the big day: the upcoming Milk Quality and Products Career Development Event at the FFA nation convention in Louisville, Kentucky, which runs Oct. 28 to Nov. 2.

With blue heads, bright red wattles and spectacular tiers of bronze, black and beige feathers, wild turkeys can be exceptionally beautiful creatures. Benjamin Franklin himself, in ...

By all appearances, rabbit could be the food of the future.