Click through the slideshow to see beautiful photos from Oprah's new farm in Maui. (You can read the full story in the June issue of O, The Oprah ...
By Kathleen Kingsbury BOSTON, March 19 (Reuters) - As a teenager in Wisconsin, Perry Vieth spent his summers baling ha...
Even with a surge of interest in "local food" and its central relationship to individual, community and global health, somehow it remains difficult for many of us to make the connection between the food we eat and the land that is required to grow it.
I began Dissertation to Dirt hoping to answer a single question: can young Americans make a career of farming? It may not seem compelling at first, but that question is the heart of the food movement.
AUCTIONS IN VOGUE This hunger among farmers has prompted more sellers to put their land up for public bidding to see w...
OMAHA, Neb. -- The average value of farmland in several Midwestern and Western states grew 25 percent over the past year in the biggest one-year jump ...
(Christine Stebbins) - Soaring farmland values in the past year are causing worries among agricultural bankers that a farmland "bubble" may be bre...
Food offers this nation the opportunity not only to reconnect once again with its agricultural roots, but to assume a role of visionary leadership.
This is usually a slow time of the year for farm sales. It's past prime planting season. Yet, Sam Kain, Des Moines area manager for land sales at Farm...
SENDAI, Japan -- The rice paddies on the outskirts of this tsunami-hit city are ankle-deep in a black, salty sludge. Crumpled cars and uprooted trees ...
But as prices for agricultural land surge across America's grain belt, regulators are warning that a new real estate bubble may be forming -- echoing ...
Sept. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Michael Burry, the former hedge-fund manager who predicted the housing market's plunge, said he is investing in farmable land, ...
60 million players of FarmVille have farmed 500 million acres of digital strawberries, corn, watermelons and more. Contrast that with the 930 million acres of actual farmland in America.
