The rapid acceleration of global warming in recent decades has had a wide array of effects on the agricultural industry. Most notably, it has resulted in the steady depletion of supplies of freshwater in communities all over the world. This is an ecological trend that...

By now, we’ve all grown somewhat accustomed to the shortages that are occurring as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. In early 2020, it was uncommon to not find cans of soup or paper towels at the local grocery store. After months of nationwide lockdown, however, food...

Are you interested in owning your own farming operation? If so, you may have already learned that there are a considerable number of start-up costs to take into account. Independent farms require the harmonious interplay of a wide variety of technologies and systems. ...

With each passing year, water scarcity is becoming a more widespread and serious international problem. In fact, the United Nations estimates that there are currently around 700 million people currently without a secure freshwater supply. The depletion of the world’s...

Today, equal and fair access to land ownership opportunities is a universal human right. Indeed, this is a fundamental moral hallmark of modern agriculture. And yet in the not so distant past, those opportunities were widely withheld from women and ethnic minorities....

In recent years, people across the United States have been rediscovering the joys of living in a rural community. In addition to providing access to your own means of food production, rural living can have tons of health benefits.  Many aspiring farmers never achieve...

In the not too distant past, food insecurity was the norm for most human populations around the world. Thanks to recent innovations in agriculture and communications, great progress has been made in our global effort to eliminate hunger. However, we still have a long...