The need for sustainable agricultural practices has gained unprecedented attention recently. As global populations rise and environmental concerns become more pressing, the farm sector is ...

Thanks to a new technology, agricultural robots may be getting a serious skill improvement in tending to crops. SonicBoom, a sensing technology developed by the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon ...

On harvest days at Three Creeks Farm and Forest in the Missouri River valley, farm owner Emily Wright and her staff collect three varieties of leafy greens from the field. “We can’t really grow enough ...

Climate change is threatening modern life in ways we are still finding, from food security to the economy to everyday living. It has been labeled a “threat multiplier” for its potential to complicate ...

To make sure everyone eats well in our crowded world, we need to innovate. Vertical farming systems, which grow plants intensively in an indoor setting, could be part of the answer—but to use them on ...

The Indian government is pushing hard to transform traditional farming into a modern, technology-driven business model, and ...

Producing and distributing food is responsible for roughly a third of global greenhouse gas emissions. But food systems are highly vulnerable to the droughts, floods, fires and heatwaves made more ...

Though getting to the other side of a major economic downturn isn’t easy, there are leadership traits, actions and tools that can help farmers get there. As promised in a previous Market Intel, “The ...

Emily Wright picks flowers growing safely in a garden tunnel Sept. 17 at Three Creeks Farm and Forest in Ashland. Wright saves the tunnels for high value crops such as these flowers, tomatoes and ...