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Farmland is often a battleground in the fight against climate change.Solar panels and energy crops are pitted against food production, while well-intended

Farmland is often a battleground in the fight against climate change. Solar panels and energy crops are pitted against food production, while

Farmland is often a battleground in the fight against climate change. Solar panels and energy crops are pitted against food production, while well-intended policy choices can create incentives for farmers to till up new lands, releasing even more heat-trapping gas into the atmosphere.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency  reminds agricultural producers that farm loan programs can be used to support a variety of climate-smart agriculture practices, which build on many practices that farmers and ranchers already use, like cover cropping, nutrient management and conservation tillage. Climate-smart agricultural practices generate significant environmental benefits by capturing and […]

Eligible producers could use a loan for capital improvements to a livestock facility or for waste treatment.

        Educators in Northwest Ohio are invited to apply through May 10 for year three of the Earth Heart Farms (EHF) outdoor STEAM-enhancement program in Ottawa County.

A program that will pay well likely exists for landowners with cropland that floods regularly or doesn’t produce good crop yields.

Farms in DuPage County received $14,198,080 in taxpayer-funded subsidies in 2021, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Farming continues to be a family business, with 97% of U.S. farms family-owned and accounting for 90% of farm production.

The team used machine learning to map nearly 30 million acres of United States cropland abandoned since the 1980s, creating a tool that could guide decisions about how to balance production of energy and food.