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photo of a farmer looking out over a flooded field; the sun is setting in the background and the light is reflecting off the floodwaters

Budimir Jevtic/Shutterstock

May 15, 2023

Farmers Can Adapt to Alternating Droughts and Floods—Here’s How

Omanjana Goswami
Interdisciplinary Scientist

NRCS/SWCS photo by Lynn Betts

May 13, 2021

Why “Infrastructure” Includes the Ground Beneath Our Feet

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

Crop field with runoff

February 25, 2021

To Save Its Soil and Clean Up Its Water, Iowa Needs to Act Fast(er)

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

Jenn Vargas/Flickr

November 26, 2019

Reasons to Be Thankful—8 Food and Farm “Good News” Stories

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

Matt Liebman/Iowa State University

July 24, 2019

A Spoonful of Science in Your Surprisingly Powerful Cereal Bowl

Marcia DeLonge
Former Contributor

Before switching to no-till, farmer Gary Hula described the soil as having the consistency of flour. Just four years later and the structure and moisture in the soil is undeniable. Photo courtesy USDA/Flickr

April 8, 2019

Farmers Are Excited About Soil Health. That’s Good News for All of Us.

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

Ron Nichols/USDA NRCS

October 3, 2017

Congress Could Help Farmers, Prevent Pollution, and Reduce Flood and Drought Damage. Will They?

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

August 10, 2017

Floods, Droughts, and Soil: The Movie (or, Why I Destroyed a Small City for Page Views)

Andrea Basche
Former contributor

USDA-SARE/Edwin Remsberg

August 9, 2017

How Healthier Soils Help Farms and Communities Downstream Deal with Floods and Droughts

Andrea Basche
Former contributor

March 17, 2017

Cover Crop Challenges: A Reminder That In Agriculture, Even Small Changes Can Be Hard

Andrea Basche
Former contributor

May 12, 2016

Soils to Reverse Climate Change: “Carbon Farming” and the Untapped Potential in Ecological Approaches

Andrea Basche
Former contributor

May 11, 2016

Soils to Reverse Climate Change: What Do We Know about “Carbon Farming” Practices?

Andrea Basche
Former contributor

April 20, 2016

What You Get When You Vote With Your Dollar: The Case of Organic Wheat

UCS Science Network

October 15, 2015

The ABCD’s of Agroecology: What Is It All About?

Marcia DeLonge
Former Contributor

February 26, 2015

Counting the Benefits of Agroecology: We Have the Tools, Let’s Use Them

Marcia DeLonge
Former Contributor

December 12, 2013

Monsanto Supersizes Farmers’ Weed Problem

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

July 25, 2013

Cover Crops Dramatically Increase Corn Yields–Especially In Drought Conditions

Margaret Mellon
Former contributor

May 2, 2013

Toxic Algae and No-Till—The Environmental Darling of Industrial Agriculture and Genetic Engineering Looks Less Attractive

Doug Gurian-Sherman
Former contributor

October 30, 2012

The Transition To Crop Rotation: How Do We Get There?

Margaret Mellon
Former contributor

October 14, 2011

Gardening (and Farming) As If the Planet Depended on It

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director