Members of Maine's farming community are divided over the possibility of a first-in-the-nation right-to-food amendment. VIEW
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An Olympia man grew a 2,191-pound prizewinning pumpkin. Here's how he did it WATCH
Just last week, Jeff Uhlmeyer of Olympia won the 2021 Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off. The retired Washington State Department of Transportation pavement engineer grew...
The future farmers of France are tech savvy — and they want weekends off VIEW
France is the European Union’s main breadbasket, accounting for one-fifth of all agricultural output, but a crisis is bearing down in the form of a...
Northwest farmers who lost crops to extreme heat eligible for federal disaster relief
Record-setting temperatures in early summer caused losses across a broad swath of the state from oyster aquaculture operations in the Puget Sound region to fruit...
Plant-based food companies face critics: environmental advocates
Even as consumers and investors move to hold Big Food more accountable for its emissions, the fact that two of the leading plant-based food companies...
Could this new version of an old grain help fight climate change and feed the world? VIEW
Scientists in Kansas have transformed a perennial wheatgrass into a potential substitute for regular wheat. Their goal is to lessen environmental harm done by standard...
U.S. farmers reap bigger crop profits and boost stockpiles
It turns out that 2021 was a pretty good year to be an American farmer. After struggling through extreme weather, a trade war and tepid...