10 farming stories you should read today, May 6
Superweeds, farmer suicides, stealthy genes. Agricultural chess an endless game. Farmland — gold you can eat. Labor on an organic farm – harmony or harm. Kittyhawk for the RoboBee. Retro Farming: Horsepowered Logging. And more.
10 farming stories you should read today
Farmland anxiety. All you can't eat, pigs will. Seeds after the apocalypse. Vodka from cow's milk. Revolution in the vegetable industry. Cotton’s biggest fan – human skin. A Pandora's box of farmer fraud claims. And more.
10 ag stories you should read today, April 23
Separating neonic fact and fiction. Anti-biotech army marches on. Good times for California ag. Death by drone for wild pigs. Wine waste for broiler feed? Eating dirt. A cap-and-trade affair. And more.
Photo gallery: Honey bees run the world
Honey bees and other insects pollinate over 80 percent of flowering plants. Bee pollination is vital to agriculture — directly responsible for $20 billion in added U.S. crop values.
10 ag stories you should read today, April 16
Good times for California ag. PETA drones a hunter's target. Rudy K marches toward wine trial. Black sewage gold. Farmer — regulate thyself. The unwanted wetlands. Opium bounty nears. And more.
10 ag stories you should read today — 4/11
The photos that changed child labor laws. A risk loving winemaker. GMOs and genital baldness. iPad detects fertilizer residue? Hannibal Lecter of roadkill. Farm scars. Prisons and ag products.
Photos: California corn farmers hope for strong 2013
California corn is in the ground. About 75 percent of California's corn is harvested for dairy silage. Corn acreage for all purposes in California hit 610,000 acres in 2012 and is projected down slightly in 2013 — 560,000 acres.
10 ag stories you should read today
Manure runs dairy equipment. Biggest wine hoax in history. Farmland real estate crash? Cult of the demon chile peppers. 20 seconds to grain death. Ethanol romance grows cold.
Photos: U.S. agriculture hopeful in 2013
U.S. farmers have quickened the pace on a hopeful 2013 season. Here are a series of agricultural equipment images as producers as head down the long road toward harvest.
Pigweed marching toward Western agriculture — photo gallery
The spread of herbicide resistant pigweed seems to have no bounds. An absolute weed beast, pigweed can grow up to 2 inches each day and has been recorded as high as 9 feet tall and 40 pounds in weight. Arizona was hit with its first documented case of pigweed in 2012 and farmers will be keeping a close watch on fields in 2013.
Photo gallery: Grain sorghum ready for California comeback
Grain sorghum use for ethanol production is growing in the U.S. and approximately one-third of the U.S. sorghum crop is now used for ethanol production. Grain sorghum may be making a California return, and was once planted on almost 500,000 acres in the state.
Photo gallery: Pecans hit price dip
A number of producers are waiting out the pecan price dip, and have placed their 2012 crop in cold storage — holding out for a price rebound.
Australian farmers trek 18,000 miles in cotton picker quest
Nine thousand miles is a long haul to buy a cotton picker. Tack on another 9,000 miles to get home and you have the makings of an epic journey or a geographical accident. Throw in a couple of Australians kicking up Delta dirt in Mississippi, and the story takes on a surreal quality — a cotton odyssey.
