Norwegian horticulturists have been using pesticides for decades. A new doctoral study shows that many of them had mixed ...

Pennsylvania dairy farmers Stephanie and Hayley Painter recently took a trip to Iceland–in awe of the arctic terrain’s ...

Agriculture could go organic worldwide if we slashed food waste and stopped using so much cropland to feed livestock, a new study finds. The analysis, published in the journal Nature ...

Patanjali Ayurveda claims that the company is active in organic farming, solar energy, and waste management for environmental ...

Organic agriculture has a history of being contentious and is considered by some as an inefficient approach to food production. Yet organic foods and beverages are a rapidly growing market segment ...

But as organic farming gains acceptance, experts predict that the demand for chemical-free land may drive up the price of uncultivated land being released from the USDA's Conservation Reserve Program.

Organic farming has roots in market gardens and smaller farms, but there is nothing that prohibits organic production at larger scales. That often means bigger farms, hundreds — or thousands ...

Organic agriculture also creates less soil and water pollution and lower greenhouse gas emissions. And it's more energy efficient because it doesn't rely on synthetic fertilizers or pesticides.

Parr says there’s a long history of student passion driving advances in organic agriculture research and education at the University of California. In the 1970s, student-led organic farms at UC Santa ...