Robert Dedlow, owner of Kentor Canyon Farms in Fillmore, cuts organic thyme during a tour of his farm in 2021. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times) But depending on how that transition happens, the ...

Prairie du Rocher, Ill. – On a cold winter day in Illinois, three little pigs are resting in a three-sided shed. They have plenty of space to trot around, as they do when Jennifer Duensing approaches.

Champions of organic farming have long portrayed it as friendlier to humans and the earth. But a new study in a California county found a surprising effect as their acreage grew: Nearby conventional ...

BEING NEGOTIATED RIGHT NOW IN WASHINGTON. ONE ROW, I GOT THREE AND A HALF BIG TOTES OF ARUGULA OUT OF IT. IF ORGANIC FARMERS WEREN’T SO BUSY WORKING, THEY’D HAVE MORE TIME TO BE OUTRAGED. THE LAST ...

There is an opportunity for organic farms to remain profitable in a period of rising costs and declining profitability for ...

Organic produce might be less likely to include pesticides and other chemicals, but it is more susceptible to potential germs. These are several of the organic produce items that have been pulled for ...

Twelve years ago, rice breeders with Lundberg Family Farms crossed two rice plant “parents” in hopes of cultivating a better black pearl rice plant. After growing generations and generations of ...

Four Maine farms and the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association will share more than $1 million in federal funding to develop the state’s organic food market. The funding, announced Wednesday ...