AG Week

Data-intensive farm management program receives $2.4 million grant, seeks participants

URBANA, Ill. – The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture recently announced a $2.4 million grant through its Agriculture and Food Research Initiative to fund an ...
Reuters

Intensive Dutch animal farms seen vulnerable to disease

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Agriculture has helped make the Netherlands rich, but experts warn that the density of farms and the increasing number of animals in one of the most intensive agricultural ...
Salon

5 misused food and farming terms — and what they really mean

Many words we use come with hidden baggage. For instance we tend to assume that local, natural and grass-fed foods are good for our health, the environment and animal welfare, while intensive farming ...
Beyond Pesticides

Life On or Near Chemical-Intensive Farms Associated with Increase in Respiratory Diseases

Beyond Pesticides has reviewed the particular exposure risks farmworkers endure and health outcomes; for example, agricultural (and other) workers exposed to pesticides and other contaminants are at ...
Business Wire

Aleph Farms Reveals Its Strategy to Replace the Whole Cow as an Alternative to Intensive Cattle Farming

REHOVOT, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aleph Farms, the first company to grow cultivated beef steaks, today announced it is expanding its product line to include a unique platform for cell-cultured ...