Because they grow without the use of most synthetic fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides, organic farmers don’t have the same toolkit available to them.
Amber Balakian went “to college thinking, ‘I’m going to do something else and get away from everything.’ I actually ended up coming back.”
Farmers across America are getting older and weighing the fate of their farms.
The organic market's stable pricing is appealing to some dairy farmers.
The federal program designed to help tobacco farmers transition from the depression-era quota system to the free market has officially ended.
Marketplace's Nancy Marshall-Genzer explores the costs of putting a chicken coop in the backyard.
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack hopes organic farming will help financially strapped small-scale farmers.
More consumers want to buy food from small, local farms. But those types of growers are having a hard time getting start-up money.