Demand for assistance rises while the means to provide it continues to topple with the economy

Monsanto pressing to force the technology on Europe's largest grain producer

Researchers are still trying to figure out what prompted such high yields

Researchers are learning that plant defenses break down as carbon dioxide levels rise

Organic farmers are safe under NOP rules but need to know what they're getting and how to manage it.

Garbage in, garbage out - no matter how well you manage it.

It can be done--Virginia Tech professor Ron Morse has been trialing a wide range of cover crop species for no-till planting of organic brassicas, cucurbits, solanaceae and more.

Data from the Rodale Institute's long-running comparison of organic and conventional cropping systems confirms that organic methods are far more effective at removing the greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, from the atmosphere and fixing it as beneficial organic matter in the soil.

A white paper on what we found and how we found it.

We want soil to work for us, says soil scientist Ray Weil. We want it to hold water, recycle nutrients and keep diseases at bay. But we pulverize it with plows and expose it to evaporation and erosion. Now, does that make sense?