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An Indiana initiative has made the state a national leader in getting continuous living cover established on crop acres. Can it change the way farmers view soil? Michael Werling is, literally, a card-carrying connoisseur of soil health. “I call it...

I was really happy to be invited to the Natural Foods Expo East again this year to cover the show, especially since I missed the Summer Fancy Food Show in NYC due to time constraints of ongoing projects. The show took place again at the Baltimore Convention...

The Beginning, September 22, 1985 Champaign, Illinois Farm Aid started as an idea at the Live Aid Concert when Bob Dylan said on stage, “Wouldn’t it be great if we did something for our own farmers right here in America?” Willie Nelson, Neil Young and...

Winners of the 2015 National Agricultural Proficiency Awards were announced on Friday, Oct. 30 during the sixth general session at the 88th National FFA Convention & Expo. Awards were given in 49 categories. AGRICULTURAL COMMUNICATIONS-ENTREPRENEURSHIP...

The case for a farm bill that we won’t get before January; press release from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (some links, and all images, added here). Public relations campaigns from the federal government used to be quite a bit more robust...