Vertical farms have had successes producing fresh greens and herbs, tomatoes and strawberries—all necessary and delicious crops but not the most calorie-dense. That honor falls to cereals and grains, ...

An innovative experiment growing perennial cereal grains and legumes in the same fields is sprouting benefits for crop performance and sustainability, according to a new University of Alberta study ...

A few years ago, I ran a series of articles on understanding agriculture, designed for anyone in the general public who had an interest in understanding more about various agricultural crops and ...

David Kenyon and his dad, Tom, of the Nitty Gritty Grain Co., at their farm in Charlotte. Courtesy photo This story by Liberty Darr was first published in The Other Paper on Dec. 5 Getting down to the ...

Roaring Fork Valley farmer Cooper Means took a step back last week to move forward. Means used a newly acquired 75-year-old Allis Chalmers combine to harvest about 4 acres of oats on land he leases in ...

David Oien doesn’t seem like a renegade. He’s a friendly, down-to-earth, third-generation Montana farmer. But Oien and his fellow farmers at Timeless Seeds are renegades. In Montana, a state dominated ...

Another wheat harvest is gathering momentum, adding inexorably to the $3.5 billion worth of government-owned farm surpluses already piled up in granaries and storage warehouses. Last week Congress ...