In an increasingly uncertain world, breaking the cycle of hunger and malnutrition is more urgent than ever. The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is leading these efforts by ...

Connie Klingenberg Vetter sought a way to preserve her grandparents’ small farm just west of Deer Park. She wanted it to be a place to show other rural landowners how to live on the land without ...

The Farm Service Agency is making a change to its acreage reporting requirements to make it easier for vertical farming operations and smaller-scale farms to qualify for USDA programs. The annual ...

The Purdue Small Farm Education Field Day proved that dedicated growers won’t let summer temperatures dampen their enthusiasm for learning. Despite the hot weather, 63 attendees gathered at the Purdue ...

Across the United States, small farms are vanishing at an alarming rate. Between 2017 and 2022, the number of farms declined by about 140,000, a 7% drop, according to the USDA’s 2022 Census of ...

Food scarcity in developing countries is heightened by a worrying trend – limited funding options for small-scale farming operations on the front lines of climate change. A new report published ...

Nick Wallace, owner of 99 Counties meat delivery service, on Aug. 9 plans a path to drive his cattle to a new pasture for grazing at his family farm in Keystone. His company’s organic meat delivery ...

When people are asked what a “small farm” is, they may base their answer on the number of acres or number of animals a farm has – and they often assume that there aren’t many of them. However, small, ...

KEYSTONE — When Nick Wallace was diagnosed with cancer at 19, he and his family started looking for answers. Two years later, a good friend he grew up with, who was about the same age, was diagnosed ...