There are plenty of agriculture buzzwords floating around the news these days (Agroforestry! Vertical farming! Sustainable intensification!), and it can be challenging to keep all these different ...

A long-running debate over how to define “organic” for things like vegetables and chicken has now flared into a raging controversy dividing farmers and involving everything from accusations of ...

Ed Note: The following editorial by the senior scientist at the Cornucopia Institute, an organic industry watchdog, weighs in on the ongoing debate within the organic food industry as to whether ...

Words like “organic” and even “free-range” are more marketing language than anything else, but now the Department of Agriculture has changed that a bit. A new rule establishes stricter USDA criteria ...

The productivity of organic farming is typically lower than that of comparable “conventional” farms. This difference is sometimes debated, but a recent USDA survey of organic agriculture demonstrates ...

Crops grown hydroponically are rooted in a nutrient-rich water solution rather than soil. When it comes to the prices farmers charge for their produce, the legality of a label often makes all the ...

In 1927 Henry Williamson published Tarka the Otter, the story of an otter living in the Torridge River in Devon, U.K. Recognized today as a classic of nature writing, it has seldom been out of print.

“Organic” might be the most abused word in the English language. Chemists, farmers, and marketers all use it—and none of them mean the same thing. The result is a label that can make Oreos, cigarettes ...

Sustainability is a reasonable goal, but organic agriculture is no way to achieve it. ‘Sustainable” has become a buzzword applicable not only to agriculture and energy production but to sectors as far ...