Politicians in Luxembourg have called for all farming practices become 100% organic by 2050, a step up from the country’s commitment to be 20% organic by 2025.
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Politicians in Luxembourg have called for all farming practices become 100% organic by 2050, a step up from the country’s commitment to be 20% organic by 2025.
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An important op-ed about how we are failing farmers — and ultimately ourselves.
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Dubbed ‘Farming for Generations, the coalition intends to make the global dairy industry more sustainable by helping dairy farmers transition to regenerative agriculture practices.
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A new ‘Ag of the Middle’ program helps small producers scale up so that they can compete in a food system designed to benefit larger farms.
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Organic farmers are forced to use large amounts of plastic, much of which goes right into the landfill.
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An upcoming vote of the California Fish and Game Commission could set in motion the listing of four species of native bumble bees as endangered, sealing their fate for survival.
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Perdue Farms is hoping to end the disconnect in the American beef industry, a result of misleading ‘grass-fed’ and ‘product of USA’ labels.
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Named as one of Business Insider’s “100 People Transforming Business,” Patagonia CEO Rose Marcario discusses why her company is pushing for adoption of “the number one thing humans can do to combat global warming.”
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Amidst rising concerns over glyphosate and other chemical use, farmers in Canada are increasingly turning to organic.
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With the growing controversy over herbicides, companies are racing to get the weed-killing ag-bots into the marketplace.
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A recent study has shown that Bayer’s alternative to bee-killing pesticides actually has a negative effect on the bee population.
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A third-party study conducted at Will Harris’ regenerative farm in Georgia, White Oak Pastures, has confirmed that it is storing more carbon in its soil than pasture-raised cows emit during their lifetimes.
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Unlike the U.S., the Emirates Authority for Standardisation and Metrology gets it correct when it comes to hydroponics — it is not organic.
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Environmental scientist and ecologist Francisco Sánchez-Bayo talks about his new research on the global insect decline and its under-reported connection to agriculture.
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The Real Organic Project has reported that some large organic hydroponic operations, especially in the berry industry, are being built on land that was recently sprayed with the cancer-causing glyphosate.
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An op-ed from Rose Marcario and David Bronner, the CEOs of Patagonia and Dr. Bronner’s, respectively, on how regenerative organic agriculture can help save the planet.
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Brazilian producer Rizoma aims to regenerate one million hectares of land by 2030 — making it known that sustainability can be profitable.
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As a result of the Center for Food Safety’s lawsuit against the EPA’s approval of dozens of neonic pesticides, these bee-killing pesticides will be off the market next year.
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Kentucky, now the fourth largest hemp producer in the nation, and its small farmers are building a cooperative and transitioning more land from generations of tobacco farming toward organic hemp.
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In a fascinating and important development, an organic farmer in Nebraska was able to prevent cross-pollination of his organic corn from a neighbor’s genetically-engineered Enogen corn using a pollen-blocking organic corn variety known as PuraMaize.
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This use of technology is setting a horrible precedent and does not take into account the EMF damage that the chickens are enduring.
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Years in the making, Organic Valley and Maple Hill have partnered on a national farming initiative defining and unifying grass-fed organic standards across the U.S.
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An excellent op-ed by Natural Grocers’ Alan Lewis who delivers a much-needed message that many “better for you” products are actually causing real harm to the environment and are not improving the lives of farmers.
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Locus Agricultural Solutions’ mix of fungi and bacteria makes soil more productive and helps to mitigate climate change.
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