As I write this note, I am about to embark on a month long journey around Europe researching small scale, bioregional textile processing and the collaborative governance and distributive finance that ...

Tulare, Calif. – The U.S. agriculture industry is used to overcoming obstacles, but 2025 is shaping up to be a particularly daunting year. Labor shortages, water restrictions and the pending threat of ...

Steven's farm has been in his family for generations and he and his family are concerned about the future. "My grandfather bought this in 1963," he said. The family farm mostly beef cattle on their ...

BRUSSELS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A series of Magritte-inspired Surrealist artwork appeared outside the European Parliament – confronting policymakers with a visual warning about the future of farming in ...

From the development of rudimentary tools to today’s cutting-edge machinery, technological innovation in agriculture has steadily improved the efficiency of food and livestock production. Tools such ...

THORP, Wis. (WSAW) - Since 2018, the Dairy Business Innovation Association has awarded over 250 grants to small midwest dairy farms. Seven years later, that funding is in limbo. The U.S. Department of ...

National brands are betting big on small farmers. Food giants such as Chipotle and Sweetgreen have long emphasized close partnerships with small or local farmers, in many cases, due to corporate ...

Despite forecasts of larger farm net incomes, the debt-to-asset ratios on farms are up. While farm income of $179.5 billion is predicted, a full 40% of that total will come from cattle and government ...

The reduction in supply pushed coffee prices up, but only after many small-scale farmers had already sold all their crops. Since peaking in February, prices of arabica have fallen, dropping 33 percent ...