agriculture

A young bison calf with its herd at Bull Hollow, Okla., on Sept. 27, 2022. American bison, or buffalo, have bounced back from their near extinction due to commercial hunting in the 1800s. Many tribes are participating in their restoration.

With bison herds and ancestral seeds, Indigenous communities embrace food sovereignty

7:00am December 09, 2023

by Jim Robbins

Native Americans are returning to raising buffalo and plants that tribes have grown for millennia. It's a way to reconnect with historic traditions, and to bring healthy eating to their communities.

Economy

The cost of Thanksgiving meal may be a little less this year

3:50pm November 21, 2023

by Paul Garber

Americans on average will pay a little less than last year for their Thanksgiving meal.

Farmer Wilbert van der Post is worried that the Dutch government's new nitrogen reduction rules will force him, a fourth-generation farmer, out of business. He plans to vote for the Farmer-Citizens Movement, known in the Netherlands by its acronym, BBB, on election day in November.

World News

In the Netherlands, a farmers party taps into widespread discontent with government

5:13am September 21, 2023

by Rob Schmitz

What began as a movement of farmers opposed to environmental rules is now one of the country's dominant political parties. The nation's agricultural exports are second only to the United States.

Typhoon Farma, which operates a hemp farm in Montrose, Colo., planted 70 acres of the cannabis plant this year.

National

Apple picking season? In Colorado, you can pick your own hemp

5:00am September 15, 2023

by Emma Bowman

A farm in Montrose, Colo., is showing off its harvest, letting the public take home their own CBD plant. It's like picking your own Christmas tree, with therapeutic side effects.

Tiny farms feed Africa. A group that aims to help them wins a $2.5 million prize

4:36pm September 06, 2023

by Gabriel Spitzer

The nonprofit group One Acre Fund seeks to help smallholder farms grow more, earn more and feed more people. The organization just won a $2.5 million award from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation.

Paola Mendoza, the daughter of farmworkers, says her parents didn't want her to join them in the fields. She's now in college, studying to be a teacher.

Politics & Government

As these farmworkers' children seek a different future, who will pick the crops?

5:00am July 28, 2023

U.S. farms have faced worker shortages for years. Now compounding the problem: The children of farmworkers are leaving the fields, forcing farm owners to look to other countries for labor.

In an aerial view, water covers residential property after heavy rain on July 10, 2023 in Londonderry, Vt.

National

A Vermont farmer faces the aftermath of massive flooding

5:02pm July 13, 2023

by Megan Lim

A Burlington-area man says his small organic farm sustained $350,000-$400,000 in crop damages alone — and was canoeing through his fields after heavy rains earlier this week.

Agriculture

State receives $7.6M to expand program connecting farmers with consumers

10:56am April 27, 2023

by Neal Charnoff

A statewide food assistance program has just received a federal grant of over $7 million.

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From left, Scott Paul, president of the Alliance for American Manufacturing; human rights advocate Tong Yi; H.R. McMaster, a former national security adviser to president Donald Trump; and Matt Pottinger, a former deputy national security adviser, testified at the U.S.-China committee hearing on Tuesday.

China is buying up more U.S. farmland. Some lawmakers consider that a security threat

1:21pm March 01, 2023

by Rachel Treisman

Lawmakers at Tuesday's hearing on U.S.-China competition discussed a range of threats, including China's foreign farmland holdings. A South Dakota congressman argues even a small amount is concerning.

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ICARDA lab employee Bilal Inaty cuts a lentil plant in order to test it for various diseases at the ICARDA research station in the village of Terbol in Lebanon's Bekaa valley, on Dec. 21, 2022.

How ancient seeds from the Fertile Crescent could help save us from climate change

10:30am January 25, 2023

Some of the tens of thousands of seeds stored at a facility in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley may hold keys to helping the planet's food supply adapt to climate change. Many seeds were saved from Syria's war.

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