by Admin | Mar 6, 2017 | Conservation, Sustainability
Wild bees are responsible for pollinating a lot of crops in the United States, some of which rely on the bees, while others simply benefit from their actions. But a study from the University of Vermont has found a “worrisome mismatch between falling wild bee supply...
by Admin | Jan 13, 2017 | Business, Sustainability
Sundrop Farms has just made history. The Australian company is the first agribusiness to grow tomatoes using solar power and desalinated water. This marks a major turning point in sustainable agriculture. It proves that crops can be harvested on a mass scale with...
by Admin | Oct 26, 2016 | Business, Environmental hazards, Information
Agriculture is a constant battle against the elements. Farmers need to worry about the weather, the soil, and pests that want to eat their crops before they can send them to market. As farming has become a bigger business, focused on turning over huge crops, we’ve...
by Admin | Sep 14, 2016 | Climate Change, Information, Sustainability
In discussions about climate change, carbon dioxide gets a lot of the attention, but about 16 percent of the greenhouse gases created by human activity consists of methane, and about one-third of those methane emissions are produced by cattle. The roughly one billion...
by Admin | Jul 14, 2016 | Articles, Conservation, Environmental hazards, Sustainability
Agriculture and ecology form a tenuous balancing act. We need agriculture to grow food, but we also need to maintain ecosystems and not let farming ruin them. One significant problem is soil runoff near the beginning of the growing season. In the United States, for...
