Farm income is heavily concentrated in a handful of powerhouse states, and the latest federal data show just how wide the gap has become. In 2022, the 10 states below generated tens of billions of ...

This story was originally published by UGA Today. If you’re like most Americans, you probably don’t give too much thought to where your food comes from. And you likely pay even less attention to the ...

A few American politicians are taking a stand for octopus-kind by introducing a bill that would ban the commercial farming of the eight-armed mollusc in the United States, while also prohibiting the ...

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When most people picture a farmer, they don’t envision someone teaching math, driving a school bus or managing a bank branch. Yet for the majority of U.S. farm households, income from these off-farm ...

This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Doug Sackman is a history professor at the University of ...

We are a nation that celebrates with food. Birthdays are synonymous with cake and ice cream. Easter is all about eggs and chocolate. Halloween is everyone’s favorite day for candy (or potatoes if you ...

A millenniums-old settlement in Michigan has archaeologists rethinking the rise of agriculture on the continent. By Franz Lidz A new study has found that a thickly forested sliver of Michigan’s Upper ...

“I have a bunch of fantasies,” Celeste Nolan said over the phone from southeastern Ohio, about improvements that would make her farm more sustainable. “My dream world was that someone would put us on ...

Recent research suggests the unique stresses from farm life may be taking a toll on one of the pillars of the families that make your dinners possible: the women who keep farming families running. If ...