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farming
Tom Brown • May 22, 2025
You’ve heard of ant farms — now meet the ant farmers
Leslie Liang • May 22, 2025
Older farming techniques could help growers survive punishing droughts and floods
Lauren Leffer • June 30, 2021
The U.S. is relaxing regulations on pesticide-spraying drones, and some experts believe their precision may help reduce overall chemical use.
Lauren Leffer • April 27, 2021
Financial, cultural and structural barriers stand in the way, but momentum is on the side of a changing agricultural landscape
Delger Erdenesanaa • February 17, 2021
Experts warn erosion is depleting the essential but scarce soil nutrient
Hannah Seo • June 3, 2020
COVID-19 puts a huge strain on meat production, but it’s also an opportunity to reform the system
Tyler Santora • July 20, 2019
Pesticides, fertilizers, and machines aren’t enough to meet the burgeoning demand for food crops but fast-growing GM plants could pick up the slack
Nina Pullano • December 6, 2018
In forests, birds flock to find food. On farms with trees — not so much, a new study says
Charlie Wood • July 20, 2018
Did early humans jump-start global warming?
Cici Zhang • April 3, 2017
Aquaponic farming is catching on despite challenges
Michael Koziol • October 12, 2015
Could you survive on the Red Planet with a dozen potatoes, iron oxide dust, and your own poop?
Lauren J. Young • April 29, 2015
Farm director and writer Scott Chaskey balances his winter season between composing poetry and challenging the national organic standard
Katherine Ellen Foley • March 11, 2015
Until the public can see eye-to-eye with the majority of scientists, extra labeling isn’t worth the stress
Rebecca Harrington • March 4, 2015
Our misplaced confidence in biofuels
JoAnna Klein • November 17, 2014
Housefly larvae help scrub antibiotics from manure at factory farms