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Because of tariff wars, China has been grooming other countries with agricultural economies to provide row crops on the cheap, hurting.
Farm Progress America is a daily look at key issues in agriculture. It is produced and presented by Mike Pearson, farm broadcaster and host of This Week in Agribusiness.
The owner of Deep Roots Farm in rural Maryland and her workers finished the fall harvest last month, but some of their most vital plantings are still in the ground - and growing fast.
American agriculture is roughly a $1.5 trillion annual industry, and China poses a critical threat to the sector, according to a new report.
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 Puget Sound. Now, farmers are facing a crisis the ...
Over the past 70 years, animal welfare in agriculture has undergone many changes. From factory farms to cage-free chickens, the variation in animal welfare is vast. Though consume
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, family-owned farms continue to dominate the ...
Luke Bryan is taking his love for farming to a whole new level. The country music star kicked off the fall leg of his Farm Tour – a series of shows he performs each year at farms across the country – this week, and in a new interview, he explained how ...
For thousands of years, pearls have been a prized gemstone used to craft jewelry and other adornments. But North America has just one freshwater pearl farm that cultivates the shiny objects, located at Kentucky Lake in western Tennessee.