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A relatively inexpensive app, compatible with popular drones, could save farmers time and money.

Olives have never been California’s largest agricultural product – at its height, the industry only had a little over 35,000 acres of table olives – but as growers face low prices, high labor costs and dwindling water supplies, many are choosing to leave generations of olive-growing for a more lucrative crop.

In Welton, Iowa, thieves have outdone themselves and stolen something that was, in fact, nailed down: a barn.

A Michigan startup is harnessing it as a feed additive to address the pervasive problem of unnecessary antibiotics use on healthy animals in factory farms.

Here are eight super-cute baby bunny and chick videos for Easter. Nothing else really needs to be said, so we’ll just shut up and let the cuteness speak for itself.

Here’s a short list of breeds that lay colorful eggs that need no dye to tantalize the eye.

It could, very literally, save humanity.

Done right, planting a bed of asparagus is a once-in-a-generation affair. Other than artichokes, capers and rhubarb, asparagus is the only perennial vegetable regularly featured in North American cuisine – it will send up those slender, succulent stalks each spring for decades if it is given a happy home.

A new generation of Jewish farmers and foodies are reinterpreting bland noodle kugels, heavy briskets and other traditional dishes from Bubbe’s Passover table.