Stories Tagged as
Agriculture
Central Valley farms come at a cost for dry California
Feb 18, 2015
Agriculture uses 80 percent of the water in California
Itinerant bees play an important role in economy
by
Eliza Mills
Jan 16, 2015
Without bees, we'd lose $15 billion each year in the U.S. – and $100 billion globally.
Farmers, big oil fight over railroad access in Dakotas
Jan 12, 2015
"Grain cars were unhooked so the locomotives could hook onto oil," one farmer says. Dakota railroads tell another story.
Apple growers try to move beyond boom and bust
Oct 17, 2014
Growers are using computers and DNA sequencing to create sweeter, crisper apples.
A hard look at corn economics — and world hunger
Oct 6, 2014
Corn is not what you think. For starters: Most of the time, it's not human food.
The economics of slow money
Sep 19, 2014
A look behind the 'slow money' movement and BeetCoin with Christopher Wayne from Greenmarket Farmer's Market, and Vermont Public Radio's Angela Evancie.
For public good, not for profit.
How to grow lettuce and fish indoors, all year long
by
Chris Julin
Sep 10, 2014
Outside Duluth, Minnesota, a greenhouse grows tilapia and lettuce side by side.
How too much corn spells trouble far beyond the fields
by
Paddy Hirsch
Aug 26, 2014
Corn production could hit a record high this year and that's an issue.
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Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack on rural America
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David Gura
Jul 25, 2014
On the Farm Bill, infrastructure and chemicals.