New Farm

Friends of Family Farmers has launched iFarm Oregon, a land and resource connection service for young and beginning farmers.

Sarah Wiederkehr tried her hand at both agricultural research and farming in the past, but found her true niche in a hybrid position, as Stanford University’s first “farm educator.”

Since most food-borne illnesses over past decades have been caused by pathogens largely linked to meat, like salmonella and E. Coli 0157, only the tiniest fraction of FDA resources have gone to researching and regulating food safety issues related to fresh produce.

Fly ash, a byproduct of coal-fired power generation known to contain toxic heavy metals, is often used as an energy saver in concrete, reducing emissions significantly in building production.

Making the Transition to Organic Farming It May Be Easier Than You Think

A sizable crowd of over 250 people from six states turned out to attend the Marketing and Food Systems Initiative, hosted by the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture in Ames, Iowa.

Next month, Onatario is set to become the second province in the country (after Quebec) to ban the sale and use of most off-the-shelf cosmetic pesticides, such as those used on lawns, gardens, school yards and parks.

Welcome to the Crop Conversion Calculator. This tool allows you to create a side-by-side comparison of conventional and organic management on your own farm, using our numbers as a default or your own numbers--current or projected.

Ethanol producers, with whom the FDA was previously hands-off, may be in for more scrutiny.

Lancaster Farm Fresh Cooperative, a Pennsylvania nonprofit, was created in 2006 to take some of the marketing and shipping burden off Amish and Mennonite farmers, most of whom could not own trucks to deliver their product and preferred to stay away from the public eye.