The Republican-led budget approved in late May after an all-night debate is a case study in backroom dealing and corporate influence. The House bill ...

This post is part of a series on the SEEKCommons project. Read the Introduction to the series to learn more. Sugar, particularly that from sugarcane, takes ...

Morning on the Farm 1897. Library of Congress. Otherwise, unknown details. Every Thursday a carefully selected old agricultural photo is featured here on ...

Readers, once again, we are privileged to host this summer's end wrap-up on an Iowa farm by Stanford's Professor, Walter P. Falcon. There's nothing else ...

This subject is not new to Big Picture Agriculture...That’s according to a group of architecture students at MIT who have developed a new design for ...

Will organic revolution boost farming in India? | BBC (with lovely video) Could we save the world if we all went vegan? The amount of farmland needed to ...

A farm family poses outside their sod house. Note the clothes made from the same bolt of cloth in East Custer County, Nebraska, circa 1888. Courtesy ...

The watermelon originated in South Africa. This infographic from James Kennedy wordpress demonstrates how much humans have intervened in the breeding of ...

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Farmers hoe or "tend the land" owned by Dave Lewis, an African American farmer on May 8, 1940. Mr. Lewis owns the 575 acre farm in Macon County, Alabama. ...