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For the past two summers I have hosted a goat roast on the 4-acre farm I co-manage. More than an outdoor party, the process of slaughtering and then cooking a young goat in an underground fire pit has become a significant seasonal ritual.

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35 years ago today, thousands of farmers arrived in Washington D.C. for the second annual demonstration of the American Agriculture Movement (AAM). Some came on buses or planes, bu...

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.

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.

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.