farming

Water under Colorado’s Eastern Plains running dry as farmers irrigate “great American desert”

WRAY — Colorado farmers who defied nature’s limits and nourished a pastoral paradise by irrigating drought-prone prairie are pushing ahead…

7 years ago

Can American soil be brought back to life?

Four generations of Jonathan Cobb’s family tended the same farm in Rogers, Texas, growing row upon row of corn and…

7 years ago

Discovery Shows the Devastating Impact Salmon Farms Have on the Wild

Photo: wild herring school passes in front of farmed salmon in Wicklow fish farm pen. Sea Shepherd’s research vessel, the…

7 years ago

USDA: study finds no-till farming alone not sufficient to prevent water pollution from nitrate

photo: A no-till field. INDIANAPOLIS - A new IUPUI study funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture answers a long-debated…

7 years ago

Man using technology to improve water usage in farming

LIVINGSTON, Mont. (AP) — In this Sept. 19, 2017 photo, Jeff Reed holds a wireless rain sensor, which helps reduce…

7 years ago