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The continuing journals of dairy farmer W.G. Pope from 1941, as illustrated by his great-grandson. This week: the circus comes to town.

Dear Modern Farmer, I’ve started to notice these little spots on the side of my apples, and a crumbling red-brown gooey substance coming out of them. What’s the deal?

Shamba Shape Up is a wildly popular reality show, with upwards of 10 million weekly viewers across Africa. Each week, two hosts cheerily descend on a struggling farm. They look for...

The military taught Evan Premer not to waste time fixing a problem. So he’s been quick to start up his own high-tech farm operation in Denver.

Today’s pickers – migrant farm workers picking produce across the country – are Mexican immigrants, many of them indigenous peoples. Author Seth M. Holmes spent years with these peoples while working on his book.

One of our favorite posts to-date was the roundup of vintage WWII Victory Garden posters. Today we decided to dive into some farm propaganda from a different side of the political spectrum.

Chances are if you learned about gestation crates or antibiotic use in industrially raised animals in the past few years, you have Robert Martin to thank in some way. Martin was th...

Many urbanites think of leaving the city and starting a farm, and a growing number do. Photographer Whitney Light spend a year following a couple who left their jobs for the dirty life of the farm and a dream of sustainable agriculture.

Forget Stephen King and lobster rolls. The really impressive thing about Maine? Farms are being started at a rate nearly four times faster than the national average and it boasts one of the highest organic-to-conventional-farm ratios in the United States.