Court Orders Bayer to Pay $265 Million to Farm Hit by Dicamba Drift
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By the time Chellie Pingree was elected to represent Maine’s 1st district in the United States House of Representatives in 2008, she had already amassed more than thirty years of farming experience in the state.
Meal Worms: Apartment Bug Farm Is Big Business
Harman Johar, a recent graduate of the University of Georgia Athens, and just a regula guy — except he has a few extra thousand roommates. And he just scored $2 million to begin his organic bug business.
The Inside Story of a “Juror Revolt” in Amish Raw Milk Trial
The criminal misdemeanor trial of Wisconsin raw milk farmer Vernon Hershberger that drew national media attention ended more than two weeks ago, but Michele Bollfrass-Hopp, one of the jurors in the case, has been unable to get it out of her mind.
Mobile Poultry Slaughter: As Easy as One, Two, Three
Love eating chicken? Hate the idea of factory farming? Want to do something about it? Ali Berlow is here to help.
What Macho Herbicide Names Tell Us About Fighting Weeds (and Ourselves)
What’s in a name? The ability to turn an anxious farmer into a self-assured head Honcho.
The Side Hustle, Farmer-Edition
For small farmers, making a living from selling food is getting harder and harder. Time to hustle.
Dear Modern Farmer: Can I Legally Grow Food in My Front Yard?
Dear Modern Farmer: Can I legally grow food in my front yard?
CSAs, or “Community Supported Agriculture,” used to mean that you’d get a box of food from a farmer whom you knew. Not so much anymore.
Fluffy Cows and Four Other Boutique Farm Breeds
The fluffy cow. It's not the name of a Monty Python skit. It's the latest breed of cattle to go viral on the Internet (see also: the Emo Cow of the late aughts). After someone post...
