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In response to this, Clif Bar and Organic Valley recently teamed up to fund the first endowed chair focused exclusively on organic research.The first of its kind, this chair was re...

These crops refuse to be tamed. Yet they remain delicious.

The challenges facing novice farmers can, by all accounts, be downright daunting: deciding whether to lease or buy land, weighing capital investments in equipment, worrying about w...

Back at the end of May, wheat prices were down 2.4 percent, and after the USDA report, they plummeted another 3.5 percent. What’s going on here?

The United States Supreme Court has handed down some major decisions recently; the two biggest were granting the right for same-sex couples to marry anywhere in the country, and the ruling in favor of Obamacare. Besides these historic decisions, there was another that’s being hailed as important for property rights and the raisin industry.

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Rather than reach for poisonous baits, deadly traps, or death-inducing gases to cut the life of tunneling rodents short, opt for these more humane strategies.

RFD-TV is launching a new weekly program in July called “Rural Town Hall.” The hourlong show will feature presidential hopefuls who will be asked questions on issues specific to agriculture and rural education, development and health care, among other areas.

Tools and other evidence suggest agriculture may have begun here.