farmers

Managing the Harvest Season

Freight Farms is turning shipping containers into productive farms that require only 5 gallons of water per day.

“There’s some desperation in some of these people’s voices,” a Minnesota hay farmer said about the current drought’s impact on the community.

Forced out by Castro, some offshore Florida farmers look to grow their produce elsewhere.

“We’ve only harvested 40% of our acres and still have about 60% in the ground.” Tens of millions of dollars of potato crops damaged.

“I’m expecting massive crop losses – as devastating as we’ve ever seen…A lot of the standing stuff is flattened to the ground.”

How tariffs played a role in Amazon deforestation.

For 16 days the Amazon rainforest has burned at record breaking rates.

Leaders of a farmers’ protest in Mexico said if negotiations don’t progress with the government of President Andres Manuel López Obrador, the “next blockade” will be twice as large as […]

As many as 50,000 angry farmers throughout Mexico blocked highways and an international bridge along the Texas-Mexico border on July 17 in protest of the government of President Andres Manuel […]

Farming not the only industry to suffer losses from major flooding.

Tens of millions of dollars worth of corn and soybeans likely destroyed by major Midwest flooding. Not all farmers will be able to recuperate losses.

Hundreds of truck drivers across the Midwest volunteered their time to deliver hay bails to farmers affected by flooding in the MIdwest.

The third week of the partial Federal government shutdown is impacting U.S. agriculture. Without full funding, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is not providing some real-time information, full financial support, or some critical services for farmers and ranchers.

Soybeans and corn are pretty big crops in Ohio. After a drought scare earlier this year, growers have been rebounding nicely.

Piecing together the details of what comes from seed to table has never really been done successfully before. If it could be, the implications for both public health, corporate transparency, and anti-counterfeiting efforts would be huge.

Perhaps one of the problems for the lack of transparency and widespread adoption of technology for farmers and the agricultural community at large, is the association of bitcoin with blockchain. […]