EDITOR’S NOTE: This article by USDA’s Fred Gale and Elizabeth Gooch is part of a larger study on China’s growing agricultural investments abroad. You can download the entire study at no cost here.China’s need for agricultural resources and technology and the country’s...
Consumers think of farmers markets as clean, safe and wholesome, the antidote to larger-scale commercial produce growing. They have an idealized image of where the food comes from and how it gets to them. But new research shows there may well be a link between...
The Mayfield Family Made a Name in the Dairy Business; Now a New Generation Reinvents the Modern Family FarmWe’ve all heard the average American farmer is 57-years-old. That is true. But those 57-year-old farmers had to start somewhere to get to that average. At 39,...
