Family farmers hold unique potential to become key agents of development strategies since it has the potential of solving the utmost factors affecting agriculture ... food systems if we are ...

As the human population has increased and we have moved from small villages into larger towns and cities farming has become modernised to meet the demands of a larger and more urban lifestyle.

In the last World Agricultural and Supply Demand Estimates (WASDE), the Department of Agriculture (USDA) reduced the estimated corn yield to 177.5 bushels/acre, down from 181 bushels/acre.

$1.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to explore the ecology of organic cropping systems in Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin. Purdue, ...