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But growing food commercially to feed hundreds or thousands of people isn't cheap. Farming is expensive. Tractors cost tens of thousands of dollars, barns don't build themselves, and you can't grow marketing materials. Like any business, starting a farm from scratch takes resources.

Dairy cows never take a day off. That means dairy farmers had to keep a similar work schedule — until robotic milking came along.

Scientists suspect weight-gain supplements called beta-agonists are likely responsible for a surge in cows arriving for slaughter at U.S. meatpacking plants in weakened states, rep...

Hello! My name's Eugénie. I'm a photographer from Portland, Oregon, and for the past two months I've been on the road, traveling in my truck from Portland to Alaska, by way of BC'...

Hogs aren’t nearly as fat as they used to be — and that’s a problem.

Many of the issues with aquaculture, or fish farming, are well documented. Farmed fish compete for space against wild fish, and they carry new parasites and diseases. They contribu...

Is the modern farmer a robot?

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

But what about GMO seeds that could radically reduce the use of pesticides, and help farmers in developing countries? Would that shift the perception of genetically modified organi...