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There may be more than just the smell of manure downwind from large cattle feedlots in America’s Central Plains states. According to a new study, antibiotic-resistant bacteria coming from these businesses is being spread via the wind.

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.

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.

Chicken poop: the cause of, and potentially, solution to, Maryland’s pollution problems.

Kauai has thousands of feral chickens. But how did they get there and why are they so well-adapted?

Answers to slippery questions like: How is certified organic seafood produced and why isn’t it found in North America?