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Agriculture

Report: Meat producers ignore pleas for health, environmental reform

The Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future this week scolded the animal agriculture industry again with a review of how it has fared in the five years since the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production released its original report.

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Arkansas aims to make edamame as American as apple pie

A Texas-based Asian foods importer chose Arkansas to build its company, called American Vegetable Soybean and Edamame Inc., here. Raymond Chung, the chief financial officer, says one reason is because plenty of local farmers are willing to grow the non-genetically modified vegetable soybeans.

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Minnesota farmers see bountiful harvests and lower profits

Minnesota farmers see bountiful harvests and lower profits

For livestock producers, the trends are a welcome relief after some tough years. They buy a lot of grain to feed their animals and the falling prices will reduce their costs and boost profits. But for grain farmers, slipping prices will shrink profit margins.
by Mark Steil

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Can millet take on quinoa? First, it'll need a makeover

The grain hasn't quite taken off yet, partly because of perception issues. But farmers are optimistic that the grain, which is high in protein and gluten-free, can compete with quinoa.

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Rooftop farming is getting off the ground

While farmers in post-industrial cities like Detroit and Cleveland are claiming unused land for cultivation, in New York and Chicago, land comes at a high premium. That's why farmers there are increasingly eyeing spaces that they might not have to wrestle from developers: rooftops that are already green.

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American farmers say they feed the world, but do they?

"We feed the world," is high-tech agriculture's claim to the moral high ground. Farmers say they farm the way they do to produce food as efficiently as possible to feed the world. But is it true?

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