Over the years Seth Watkins has won praise for the way he farms. Pinhook Farm, in southern Iowa, grows diverse crops without commercial fertilizers and with limited pesticides. It also tries to tune ...

Living near a poultry farm in North Carolina can reduce a home’s value by up to 30%, according to a Duke University study. That finding comes as the number of birds North Carolina poultry farms raise ...

Large-scale family farms, which have more than $1 million in annual gross cash farm income, account for 50% of U.S. agricultural production and 33% of the acres, according to 2024 data released by ...

Since the 1990s, hog farms have gotten bigger, more specialized and more productive, according to a new report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Environmental Research Service. The number of ...

Jim Durst is a proud owner of a farm that manages to remain completely organic and chemical pesticide-free in a world that relies heavily on methods of farming that negatively impact the environment. ...

A new study shows how much the size of a farming operation affects labor needs. For crop farms, the number of labor hours per acre drops significantly the bigger the operation is, according to the ...

Iowa farm size has changed between 2011-2021, according to a report from Iowa State University Extension and Outreach. The number of large commercial farms has doubled in that time period, while the ...