Articles by Des Keller

Four major projects that are part of Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities initiative showcase the varied approaches farm groups, companies and non-profit sponsors are taking to prove the impact of conservation practices on ag’s environmental footprint.

The Biden administration, USDA, and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have found something to agree on when it comes to the meatpacking industry: The next farm bill needs to do more to help smaller-local meat processors get up and running.

Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack has been minimizing concerns that the existing level of foreign ownership of American farmland is a serious risk, saying the bigger issue is farmland being scooped up by “billionaires and Wall Street.”

The positive reception that biotech wheat has received in Argentina is being closely watched in the U.S., but experts say any genetically engineered variety faces a long road to approval here.

The rate of fatal drug overdoses has been rising more rapidly in rural areas for the past decade.

The Boston-based AI and automation startup, Zordi, runs two greenhouses, one in western New York and another in New Jersey.

When it comes to water issues in the western U.S.—specifically the seven states dependent on the Colorado River system for their lives and livelihoods—John Boelts thinks farmers are giving up more than their share.

Farmers, ranchers, foresters and other landowners are beginning to realize the benefits of carbon markets, and companies are working to balance dreams of the marketplace with reality.