Agriculture

Biologists aim to engineer crops that can eat nitrogen straight from the air.

Erinn Springer’s “Dormant Season” pays tribute to a patch of prairie that her family has called home for generations.

A ninety-year-old Vermont farmer tells all.

In a place where the summer sun shines for twenty-one hours a day, climate change is helping to turn frozen ground into farmland.

A global grain shortage has put extra pressure on American farmers. Can they navigate extreme weather and skyrocketing inflation when the world needs them most?

In California, millions of residents and thousands of farmers depend on the Bay-Delta for fresh water—but they can’t agree on how to protect it.

True Price, a Dutch nonprofit, aims to help us grasp the real costs of consumption.

Could tinkering with photosynthesis prevent a global food crisis?

California produces much of America’s food—and now a drought and a pandemic have put the system on edge.

Renewed attention to antitrust has been focussed on Big Tech, but concentration in agriculture may be an underlying source of rural America’s pro-Trump political backlash.

As rural Wisconsin’s fortunes have declined, its political importance has grown.

The closer the fruit is to rot, the more rot it spreads.

Arif Husain, of the World Food Programme, describes how the coronavirus pandemic will worsen hunger and food insecurity around the world.

The coronavirus isn’t just a public-health crisis. It’s an ecological one.

A series of political and climatic upheavals has yielded diminishing quality in a commodity once believed to be the best in the world.

After Brexit, the obsessions of Jake Fiennes could change how Britain uses its land.

Driscoll’s unveils its first non-red strawberry.

The writer and farmer on local knowledge, embracing limits, and the exploitation of rural America.

Picking strawberries takes speed, stamina, and skill. Can a robot do it?

A “natural disaster” is at least half non-natural. It is the product of a natural event and the infrastructure that it floods, shakes, or ignites.