Conscious Consumption

Little time has passed since farm headlines were dominated by drought and water shortage. Now, farmers across the country and the world are grappling with the reverse problem: floo...

What does the Chinese public think of the deal with Smithfield, America’s largest pork producer?

Our continuing round-up of exciting agriculture-related crowdfunding projects.

The continuing journals of dairy farmer W.G. Pope from 1941, as illustrated by his great-grandson. This week: entertaining guests.

Ben & Jerry’s announced it will stop using genetically-modified ingredients in its ice cream by 2014.

Dear Modern Farmer, I feel like a soil criminal. I dug up my beds when the soil was too wet. How screwed am I?

Marnie Jackson traded in her urban life for a rural one in Marin, CA. Now she’s the founder of West Marin’s new Homesteader Group and says she’d rather slit birds’ necks than get her nails done.

Modern Farmer’s semi-irregular look at agricultural malfeasance from around the world.

In pictures, my life is one of fantastical bucolic bliss and yeoman righteousness – green fields, cute animals, amazing sunsets, the works. I work on a goat dairy in Vermont, and the photographic opportunities are limitless. But they are also illusory