We talk with third-generation shepherd Butch Theos about his experience raising lamb, the challenges and joys of working as a shepherd and how the American Lamb Board has helped put a new face on lamb.

Shop our winter gift guide, where we’ve gathered the most inspirational, unique, practical and beautiful objects to send you into this colder season in style.

I have never seen literature concerning correlations between psychology and light exposure in animals. But there is a strong correlation between daylight and breeding.

We meet the new breed of global growers embracing agriculture.

Lillian Colton first entered a crop art competition 1966. Eleven years, she had earned the title of “the Andy Warhol of seeds.”

A young farmer dies, and a community comes together.

Dave Edwards and his company WikiFoods aim to partner with various collaborators to develop innovative new ways to package and store your food. Together with Stonyfield Farms they will launch their first product, edible frozen yogurt and ice cream encased in naturally-flavored edible skins and sold in biodegradable cellophane bags.

Modern Farmer talks to Jack Algiere, Four Season Farm Director at Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture in upstate New York, about cold-weather farming.

If money (and reality) were no object, what would a farmer’s dream truck look like? We asked seven farmers from around the globe.