By Caleb Hampton, Ag Alert Below an ashen hillside, farmer Johnnie White picked shriveled grapes off flaking vines, surveying for the third time in a decade the ravages of a wildfire on Napa Valley vineyards. Nearby, fire crews stamped out...
By Srabani Das and Sara Rosenberg The University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources-UC Merced Symposium ‘Regenerative Agriculture: The way...
By Axel Herrera, Ellen M. Bruno, and Cristina Lazcano The transition to regenerative agriculture is gaining attention for its potential to enhance sustainability, but questions remain about its economic feasibility. Using data from four Sonoma County vineyards, we show that...
By Jacob Stid, Michigan State University; Annick Anctil, Michigan State University, and Anthony Kendall, Michigan State University Imagine that you own a small, 20-acre farm in California’s Central Valley. You and your family have cultivated this land for decades, but...
Agrivoltaic solar arrays can shade crops from sun while moisture from vegetation cools the panels to increase their productivity, researchers and farmers have found. By Tina Deines This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization...
New research sheds light on how rising temperatures are squeezing farmers and raising prices for consumers. By Frida Garza, Grist This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. New research spotlights the challenge of...