Sep. 2—When Andrew and Becky Toothacker purchased Hart Farm in Holden last year, they bought more than just 160 acres to work and build a business on. They also bought more than 150 years' worth of ...

Secondary-growth forests are becoming more common, particularly in the tropics where old-growth forest is often cleared to make way for agriculture. A recent study shows that without careful ...

Agricultural fields lie across the Palo Verde Valley in Blythe, Calif. The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California is working with local growers to leave some fields fallow in exchange for ...

BUCYRUS — Many agricultural producers may have experienced some flush years recently, but 2015 isn’t shaping up to be one of them. The USDA’s Economic Research Service expects farm sector ...

The sleek, lithe animals hurtle around the paddock in ballet-like precision. There must be 30 fallow bucks in the herd, but they act as one, wheeling, surging into a quick trot, bounding away, then ...

CHATHAM TWP. – Whether it’s called commercial farming, family farming or now market garden farming, there will be no farming until the Township Committee has thoroughly investigated the issue and ...

Farmers who cultivate cassava on fallow land in Sylhet division are in for a huge success this year with expectations of a bumper yield and good market prices. The rugged vegetable has a relatively ...

MUTARE, ZIMBABWE—His name is Piet de Klerk and, yes, he’s distantly related to that other more famous de Klerk, F.W., the last white president of South Africa. If the “war veterans,” those men with ...

Farm the best and conserve the rest. That's an old saying among farmers. It's advice for how much land to harvest. The U.S. government agrees. It even pays farmers to keep some of their land fallow.