Organizers of the annual event say the goal is to help farmers work sustainably and produce better quality food.

UC Santa Cruz will also lead development of a new seven-week, system-wide field quarter program, with a supercourse in organic agriculture. The supercourse cohort of students will travel together to ...

Biodiversity is under threat worldwide. While the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) estimated in 2019 that 1 million out of 8 million species ...

Organic farming is a trade off: ... organic fields and farms typically contain on average between 26%-42% more species than fields managed using conventional methods.

By MELINA WALLING (Associated Press) Champions of organic farming have long portrayed it as friendlier to humans and the earth. But a new study in a California county found a surprising effect as t… ...

08/02/2019 @ 8:30 am - 12:30 pm - bsp;Purdue Extension-Organic Agriculture, will provide an overview of Klemp Family Farms, where the Klemp family manages 4200 acres of field crops, with 1400 ...

Synthetic pesticides and genetically modified crops are effective—by choosing not to use them, organic agriculture requires more manually-intensive labor—sometimes as much as 35 percent more.

09/05/2019 @ 8:30 am - 12:30 pm - bsp;Purdue Extension-Organic Agriculture, will provide an overview of Ramerview Holstein Farm, where the Ramer family manages a certified organic dairy, producing ...

Champions of organic farming have long portrayed it as friendlier to humans and the earth. But a new study in a California county found a surprising effect as their acreage grew: Nearby ...