How To Have Your Solar Farm And Keep Your Regular Farm, Too
Large-scale solar farms are running into opposition from people who want to save farmland. Now solar companies are trying to combine solar and farming.
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Food Is Growing More Plentiful, So Why Do People Keep Warning Of Shortages?
For more than a century, food has been getting more abundant, and cheaper. Yet people keep worrying about food shortages. Some economists say the fears actually create their own problems.
Big-Money Investors Gear Up For A Trillion-Dollar Bet On Farmland
A trillion dollars worth of American farmland will change hands in the coming years. Wealthy investors are likely to buy more of it with the power to shape rural communities and the environment.
Navajo Nation Sees Farming Renaissance During Coronavirus Pandemic
The Navajo Nation is having a farming renaissance in the era of COVID-19. More residents are turning to traditional agriculture as they're under strict travel limits due to the coronavirus.
How Absentee Landowners Keep Farmers From Protecting Water And Soil
America's vast fields of corn and soybeans have displaced wildlife and polluted waterways. Farmers could help solve those problems, but often don't, in part because they rent that land.
Soil Prof Hits Pay Dirt: $250K Prize For Helping Farmers, Fighting Climate Change
Meet 2020 World Food Prize Laureate: Rattan Lal. His "soil-centric" philosophy is praised as being good for crops — and for mitigating climate change.
Climate Change Poses Threats To NC Christmas Tree Crop
Thoughts of Yuletide and climate change don't usually go hand-in-hand, but the state's Christmas trees are not immune to the threats.
Budding Hemp Farmers Struggle To Find Success In The 'Green Rush'
CBD products are found everywhere from gas stations to drugstores. A record number of farmers are growing hemp for CBD this year, but making money has proved challenging.
5 Decades Later, New Communities Land Trust Still Helps Black Farmers
October marks the 50th anniversary of a pioneering effort to provide a safe haven for black farmers evicted from their land as punishment for participating in the civil rights movement.
In Guatemala, A Bad Year For Corn — And For U.S. Aid
Last spring, Trump froze almost $500 million in funding to three Central American countries to pressure them to stop the flow of migrants. The impact on farmers could end up increasing migration.