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Meet some of the faces behind the new era of American cheese.

Solid Rain is a Mexican product, just introduced to the U.S., which bills itself as a miracle powder that could solve the world’s drought problems. And it may be right.

Every day, backyard farmers and urban homesteaders across the country fill little plastic baggies with small samples of soil and ship them off to Massachusetts.

Meet The Farmery, an all-in-one greenhouse and local food mart that will offer urbanites the opportunity to harvest their favorite greens on the spot.

A Kickstarter for global agriculture.

Drones aren’t just for spying and unmanned warfare. Farmers are finding uses for herding cattle, spraying pesticides and a host of other farm chores.

As Andrea Wulf writes in her book Founding Gardeners, even in the midst of the Revolutionary War, George Washington remained preoccupied with the progress of his new garden at Moun...

Between drought and a decrease in per capita beef consumption, the past few years have been challenging ones for cattle farmers. It’s also translated into higher costs for the leather industry.

When most people think about palm oil, if they think about it at all, they think of it as just one of the obscure and often unpronounceable ingredients printed on packages of proce...