Why, exactly, are people always throwing tomatoes at each other?

The Tomatoes of Wrath

I set out to discover the secrets to growing the perfect tomato. It might be simpler than I had imagined.

Heart of the Tomato

Climate change promises to usher in droughts, floods, and everything in between. Researchers have begun preparing for this tempestuous future by tormenting tomatoes.

Some Light Tomato Torture

Sending our flock to graze on eight different solar farms is the best business decision we’ve ever made.

Sheep for Hire: Will Travel

Farmers in the Northeast are trying out a warm-weather staple to adapt to a changing climate.

Growing Rice in New York

As we get ready to feed astronauts on the Moon and Mars, NASA scientists are figuring out how to build soil from scratch.

Space Farm

In Tucson, a vanished Mormon farming community lives on in a 1936 feed store that has outlasted the farms, the ranches, and the river that made them possible.

What the Feed Store Remembers

After centuries of overhunting for the fur trade, trappers are now playing a key role in saving beavers.

Spare the Beaver

As Japan’s liquor companies slowly lose traction at home, Japanese-style spirit production is picking up steam here. 

Japanese Sake: Made in the USA

A Georgia peach farmer fiddles with shipping temperatures, hoping customers fall for his tastier fruits

Warming Up to Peaches

A startup is buying corn residue from commodity farmers to turn into bio-oil. Can injecting this substance deep underground be a viable way to store carbon?

Cash for Corn Stover

The U.S. wool industry is staging a comeback. So where are all the sheep?

Counting Sheep

All over Europe, angry farmers have been staging wild protests for months. Despite facing similar issues, their American counterparts have been awfully quiet.

Where’s the Smoke? 

Bitterness has largely been bred out of the American diet. But in light of research on the health benefits of bitter produce, should we bring it back?

Learning to Love Bitter

Cairnspring Mills has shown that there’s a market for regenerative, regionally sourced grain. Now it’s trying to prove that the model can grow.

Local Flour, At Scale

If the past is any indicator, the future of American farmland will contain many surprises.

The Things We Do for Land

Research suggests they may be able to enjoy a massage, recognize themselves in a mirror, and get depressed. Are fish welfare standards next?

Are Fish Sentient?

As agtech venture dollars dry up, a new study suggests tech companies focus on tools that are affordable and easy for farmers to use.

“Not Every Shiny Robot Is a Solution.”

Out in farm and ranch country, there’s no shortage of DIY solutions to common ag challenges. 

Hacking It

The vast majority of American chicken is raised under the contract system. A network of advocates aims to help unhappy producers get out. 

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