Michael D. Clem

Kari Williams owns Snow-Capped Cider outside of Cedaredge, Colorado, where she makes hard ciders exclusively from apples grown in Colorado. She has a unique advantage as a local cider producer: her…

Although manual weeding of crops can be time consuming and labor intensive, spraying herbicides on these crops is definitely not environmentally friendly. A German consortium is developing a third choice, in the form of the AMU-Bot weed…

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KANSAS CITY, MO. - Corn and soybean futures hold up despite recent forecasts from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) that the two 2021 harvests will be the second largest in history, and there are several bearish indicators…

Damage to this tree is caused by a Pacific flathead borer.Photo by James Solomon, USDA Forest Service Nut growers in recent years have reported higher infestations of the Pacific Bull Moth, according to the University of California (UC).…

This decision is the result of relentless pressure from Indian farmers who protested for over a year, Reuters reported. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's administration introduced farm bills last year through an executive order,…

The famous apple orchards of the Kashmir Valley may soon disappear due to erratic climate changes in the region. Over the past decade, the valley has experienced major climate changes, such as early snowfall, due to which…

The winter season is officially upon us, and the rainy weather has prompted the Napa Valley wine teams to step up anti-erosion measures on their properties.…

As farmers continued to conserve their crops, oilseed crushing in India declined. This could force the country to increase its imports of edible oils such as soybean oil, palm oil and sunflower oil, Reuters reported. However, local…

The locally grown apple is at risk of becoming a rarity in India, as farmers have lost up to half of their harvest this year, with predictions that the country's major orchards could soon be all but wiped out.The first snowfall in Kashmir,…