sustainable agriculture

Photo: Farmland LP

September 19, 2018

Here’s What Agriculture of the Future Looks Like: The Multiple Benefits of Regenerative Agriculture Quantified

Ricardo Salvador
Former Contributor

U.S. Marine Corps veteran Calvin Riggleman holds an oregano seedling and soil on Bigg Riggs farm in Hampshire County, WV

Photo: Lance Cheung, USDA

April 18, 2018

Will Congress Give Farmers the Farm Bill They Want?

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

March 27, 2018

Taking Action for Public Science: Re-Imagining Iowa’s Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture

UCS Science Network

November 29, 2017

You Might Be Wasting Food, Even If You’re Not Throwing It Away

Doug Boucher
Former Contributor

UCS

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

USDA-ARS/Scott Bauer

July 12, 2017

Northern Plains Drought Shows (Again) that Failing to Plan for Disasters = Planning to Fail

Andrea Basche
Former contributor

National Agroforestry Center

April 26, 2017

Arbor Day and Agroforestry: Green Infrastructure for Agriculture

Andrea Basche
Former contributor

Photo: Iowa State University/Lisa Schulte Moore

April 17, 2017

Sustainable Agriculture on the Chopping Block in Iowa

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

Photo: US Agency for International Development/CC BY-NC 2.0, Flickr

March 16, 2017

Food Production Does NOT Need to Double by 2050 (And Other Required Reading for the Next USDA Secretary)

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

Green Cover Seed

March 3, 2017

What We Need Are Farms That Support Farmers, Consumers AND the Environment

Andrea Basche
Former contributor

February 13, 2017

Love Local Food? Here’s a Promising Way to Protect the Local Land that Grows It

Andrea Basche
Former contributor

Climate Listening Project

February 3, 2017

Climate Change, Resilience, and the Future of Food

UCS Science Network

Srl/CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia

February 2, 2017

What Can “Local” Food Do?

UCS Science Network

A view of the Sacramento River after multiple days of heavy rain in early January 2017. Source: James Daisa/Flickr Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic License.

January 25, 2017

California Floods Remind Us To Make Agricultural Water Conservation a Top Priority

Andrea Basche
Former contributor

USDA-NRCS

December 5, 2016

On World Soils Day, Five Fun Facts About the Underdog of Natural Resources

Andrea Basche
Former contributor

Roberta/CC BY 2.0, Flickr

November 18, 2016

The Second Worst Flooding in Iowa History That You Probably Didn’t Read About

Andrea Basche
Former contributor

Karen Perry Stillerman

August 30, 2016

A Look at Iceland’s Food and Farming System (Or, What I Ate on My Summer Vacation)

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

August 10, 2016

Why the Loss of Grasslands Is a Troubling Trend for Agriculture, in 11 Maps and Graphs

Andrea Basche
Former contributor

August 1, 2016

Good News and Bad News on This Year's Dead Zone Measurement

Andrea Basche
Former contributor

Lance Cheung, USDA/CC BY 2.0 (Flickr)

July 27, 2016

Book Review: Cowed’s Message is Less but Better Beef

Doug Boucher
Former Contributor

July 14, 2016

Where Your Brews Come From: A Deeper Dive into Barley for Beer

Andrea Basche
Former contributor

Map of the US highlighting the hypoxic "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico and the watershed that feeds it. Photo: NOAA

June 10, 2016

There’s Nothing Average About This Year’s Dead Zone Forecast

Andrea Basche
Former contributor