4-H for seniors, farmer mental health, 5G connections part of helping communities
By Elizabeth Hernandez
The Denver Post
BURLINGTON »
With the July sun scorching the Eastern Plains, Elaine Wright, Wayne Runge and Ron Hielscher delighted in the dirt beneath their fingers as they watered a ga...
By Laura van der Pol, Dale Manning, Francesca Cotrufo and Megan Machmuller The Conversation
As the effects of climate change intensify and paths for limiting global warming narrow, politicians, media and environmental advocates have rallied behind “carbon farming” as a mutually bene...
BILLINGS, MONT. » A punishing drought in the West is drying up waterways, sparking wildfires and leaving farmers scrambling for water. Next up: a plague of voracious grasshoppers.
Federal agriculture officials are launching what could become their largest grasshopper-killing campa...
A new study finds that if all parts of the food system are included, food production is responsible for as much as 40 percent of global emissions. By Georgina Gustin, Inside Climate News
June 10, 2021

Emissions from food production, already considered one of the ...
Nat Geo, BYMARYN MCKENNA
PUBLISHED OCTOBER 14, 2015 There’s a point of view about raising crops that you hear a lot: if we’re going to feed the nine billion people who are expected to be inhabiting this planet in the year 2050, we will need to expand and intensify the farming we do now. That m...
A Colorado county may have a model for the nation’s conservation efforts By Judith Kohler The Denver Post
David Kelly has lived his whole life in Colorado’s Upper Arkansas River Valley, where his family has ranched since 1952. The community is committed to helping him and other ranchers the...
By John Flesher The Associated Press
MECOSTA, MICH. » For generations, Brian Sackett’s family has farmed potatoes that are made into chips found on grocery shelves in much of the eastern U.S.
About 25% of the nation’s potato chips get their start in Michigan, where reliably cool air during Se...
By Emily Schmall and Karan Deep Singh © The New York Times Co.
BHAGWANPURA, INDIA » The farmer sat in the house his grandfather built, contemplating economic ruin. Jaswinder Singh Gill had plowed 20 years of savings from an earlier career as a mechanical engineer into his family’s nearly 40-acre pl...
By Henry Fountain
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CANADIAN, TEXAS » Adam Isaacs stood surrounded by cattle in an old pasture that had been overgrazed for years. Now it was a jumble of weeds.
“Most people would want to get out here and start spraying it” with herbicides, he said. “My family use...
By Ana Swanson
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WASHINGTON » The Trump administration Wednesday announced a ban on imports of cotton and tomatoes from the Xinjiang area of China, as well as all products made with those materials, citing human rights violations and the widespread use of f...
The administration has options to cut emissions even if a Republican-led Senate opposes climate-focused agriculture policies.

By Georgina Gustin
January 4, 2021
The Donaldsonville Nitrogen Complex in Donaldsonville, Louisiana, and the Navoiyazot chemical plant in Navoi, Uzbekistan, have a lot ...
Dino Grandoni
Dec. 10, 2020 at 5:54 a.m. MST
with Alexandra Ellerbeck
Joe Biden just picked one of his most important — if unheralded — Cabinet members when it comes to enacting his agenda on climate change. Tom Vilsack, who ran the Agriculture Department for eight years under Presid...
By Julia Turshen © The New York Times Co.
It’s the first harvest season of an unparalleled year. We visited three small farms, where we found people cultivating far more than food. Despite quarantines and lockdowns and disruptions, they are nurturing networks. It’s both inspiring and instructi...
hared from the 8/23/2020 The Denver Post eEditio By Samy Magdy
The Associated Press


A Second Village farmer shows a shriveled olive. Egypt’s farmers face severely stretched water resources because of years of mismanagement and increasing population.
SECOND VILLAGE, EGYPT»In the winter o...
By Alice Mannette
The Hutchinson News
WINDOM, KAN.» With a nudge toward the past, Kansas farms are using bees once again to increase crop health.
During the early 1900s, bees were prevalent in the state. Jorge Garibay, a beekeeping consultant from St. John, and others want to increase their number...
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By Brian Melley The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES» The nation’s most productive agricultural state moved Wednesday to ban a controversial pesticide widely used to control a range of insects but blamed for harming brain development in ba...
One of every three bites of food eaten worldwide depends on pollinators, especially bees, for a successful harvest. And in the past several months, a scramble in California’s almond groves has given the world a taste of what may lie in store for food production if the widespread — and still puzzling...
BRUSSELS » The European Union made a key breakthrough Friday to ban pesticides that harm bees and their crop pollination.
The 28 member states got a large majority, representing some three-quarters of its population, backing the ban on the three prevalent neonicotinoid pesticides, which will t...
HOLYOKE FARMLAND
Solar-powered pivot a success By Jeff Rice Sterling Journal-Advocate
Randy Weis and his mother, Darlene, stand in front of the solar array on their farm southeast of Holyoke. Jeff Rice, Sterling Journal-Advocate
Randy Weis’ potatoes weren’t just nourished by sunshine this p...
