Northern Irish dairy farms are running cameras, robotic milking and record-keeping apps. What made it possible was not the AI — it was…
New tools count and analyse fruit on the tree and predict ripening. Getting the date wrong means booking seasonal workers you do not need…
John Yeley’s family has farmed the same Illinois land since 1852. He is buying diesel 1,000 gallons at a time, hoping for a price drop that…
A five-year study at Bangladesh Agricultural University, published with the University of Connecticut, found the real figure is 27% below…
Steve Cargil’s family have farmed near Uvalde since 1953. After a hailstorm destroyed months of work overnight, his son questioned whether…
Juan Ángel Izquierdo’s family have farmed the Gredos mountains for 200 years. July’s fire merged with two others, burned around 80,000…
Fifteen years ago ripe avocados fell off Indian trees and were eaten by dogs. A grower in Kerala who planted them only as shade for coffee…
The longest engineering project in human history. It made crops that cannot survive without us — and one fruit so uniform a single fungus…
