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There’s a difference between real manure and standard journalistic bullcrap. American and British news agencies should have paid a bit more attention to the former.

China’s hybrid market of state-controlled capitalism often yields weirdness, but the government’s years-long attempt to manipulate the cotton market is particularly odd.

A quirky New Zealand project called Counting Sheep is mapping out the intersection of agriculture and ethics, trying to figure out where people draw line when it comes to scientific advances (dog/sheep DNA hybrids anyone?) before the line actually gets crossed.

Raw imported meat or fish now bears a label describing where it was raised, slaughtered and processed. Cooked meat doesn't face the same requirement and as a result, chicken from C...

Zack Seckler recently found himself in Africa with some free time on his hands. Instead of photographing from ground level, he took his art to the sky.

Peyton Manning and the Broncos might not have shown up last night, but America’s farmers brought their A-game to the commercial breaks.

A look back at the Dust Bowl, when severe dust storms blew across the prairies of the United States, causing a mass migration of farmers.

When Sarah Ryhanen walks through the fields of flowers on her 107-acre property, the Farm at the World’s End, she may seem as far away from her previous career”‰ – ”‰curating New York City art galleries”‰ – ”‰as one can get.

A great tomato grown in the heart of the Israeli desert? This was possible thanks to the Salad Trail, a working farm and interactive museum designed to teach visitors about the techniques used to farm a desert.