Careful overhead cost management and strategic outsourcing can help smaller producers see significant cost benefits.

A local farm in Westport has seen success from working with a local food hub as federal funding cuts create business challenges.

Small farms have a pretty big advantage. They don’t need to ascribe to industrial means of growing. That means less tilling and fewer pesticides. The ability to have a regenerative operation is much ...

Beth and Brad Dorsey of Homeland Farms in Moro, Illinois, both grew up on dairy farms that slowly converted to beef ...

Pat and Rachel Lienemann's farm in Waseca began with four weaned heifers in 2021 and will harvest for the first time this year. Pat Lienemann on his farm in Waseca, Minnesota, on March 17, 2025, will ...

Cattle graze in a field at Otter Creek Farm on Thursday, Oct. 3, in Johnsonville. The farms sells a small number of life cattle and pigs annually to consumers who then have their animals slaughtered ...

Researchers from Germany have developed an innovative tool to enhance crop selection for agrivoltaics projects in 25 countries, thereby improving food security and energy efficiency in agriculture. As ...

Who grows our food? This seemingly simple question is getting harder to answer in a world where our food crosses borders to get to our plate. The contribution of small and industrial-scale farming to ...

In this Our Changing Climate climate change video essay, I answer the question, can small-scale farming feed the world? Specifically, I look at how industrial farming and the green revolution have led ...

Detroit chefs in farm-to-table restaurants have a secret weapon that you can't find at the grocery store or your average chain steakhouse: Michigan Craft Beef. It's a phrase Michigan farmer Tom ...