Top Issues Faced by Organic Dairy Farmers
Top Issues Faced by Organic Dairy Farmers It’s common knowledge by this point that the dairy industry in the United States is now facing an economic crisis of unprecedented magnitude. In states like California, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin - which for generations have...
Pennsylvania Dairy Farmers Losing $550 Million Each Year
Pennsylvania Dairy Farmers Losing $550 Million Each Year The economic crisis afflicting the United States’ dairy industry has reached a fever pitch in recent years. In 2018 alone, almost 3,000 dairy farms were forced to permanently close their doors due to the...
Top 10 Reasons Behind Global Water Scarcity
Top 10 Reasons Behind Global Water Scarcity As the effects of climate change continue to intensify, farmers around the globe are beginning to come face-to-face with some stark realities that could potentially affect their industry - as well as their very livelihood....
A Comprehensive Guide to Desalination Technology
A Comprehensive Guide to Desalination Technology In recent years, dwindling freshwater supplies have become a major concern - and a stark reality - for communities around the world. This has led many experts to begin ringing alarm bells, alerting us that this trend,...
Can Hemp Farming Help Save Water?
Can Hemp Farming Help Save Water? The world’s rapidly shifting climate has led many experts to believe that a global water crisis is looming on the horizon. With warming temperatures, a dwindling water supply, and deteriorating soils, farmers and agriculturalists...
How Trade Wars Have Impacted Dairy Farms in California
How Trade Wars Have Impacted Dairy Farms in California For the last two years, the two wealthiest nations in the world - the United States and China - have been engaged in an escalating, tit-for-tat style trade war. It began in January 2018 when President Donald Trump...
How to Secure Your Water Supply in Case of a Shortage
How to Secure Your Water Supply in Case of a Shortage Water is the fundamental cornerstone of life. A healthy human being can survive for a fairly lengthy amount of time without food (up to about a month or so), but won’t survive more than a few days without water....
Can No Till Farming Help Conserve Water on U.S. Farms?
Can No Till Farming Help Conserve Water on U.S. Farms? Farmers across the United States are struggling to adapt to the harsh realities of a gradually warming climate. Frequent water shortages and droughts, in particular, have pushed many farmers to the brink of...
10 Signs that a Food Crisis Is Near
10 Signs that a Food Crisis Is Near For many people alive today, the notion that a global food crisis could suddenly and dramatically sweep across the world seems absurd. Even if it were to envelop a distant, developing country, how likely is it really that we in the...
How to Prepare Your Land for Drought
How to Prepare Your Land for Drought One of the most alarming consequences of climate change for farmers in the United States - and around the world - have been longer and more severe droughts. An illustrative example is California, which endured a seven year-long...