The Latest Breaking News on Agriculture

As the future of social media platforms such as TikTok remains unknown, a younger generation of farmers is relying on social media to connect with audiences outside agriculture

Two years after President Abraham Lincoln created the Department of Agriculture in 1862, he nicknamed it “the people’s department” because half of all Americans lived on farms at that time. Today, fewer than 2% of Americans farm, but the Agriculture Department still touches people’s lives in many ways.

Have you noticed “regenerative” popping up on food labels or in marketing ads? It sounds promising – farming that heals the soil and helps stop climate change. So, what does it actually mean? Will this label make any real difference?

Low-cost loans will be made available to landowners planting native vegetation to sequester carbon in a win-win for farmers and the climate.