Agriculture & Farming

My top five picks for egg-laying chicken breeds.

Corn saved the Pilgrims and has since grown into a huge industry.

Oft ignored, sometimes maligned, the humble leghorn is still the queen of the nesting box.

How you approach the horse with the lead rope sets the tone for the rest of the day. Read on to learn more about safe practices and types of lead ropes.

Humans use cow dung as a fertilizer, a fuel, a building material, and an insect repellent. It's also used to produce a biogas and paper and to play games. Other organisms use the dung as well.

Cornish Cross chickens were created to provide meat. If you have any questions about how to raise them yourself as meat birds in your own back yard, this guide will certainly answer any questions you may have about the breed.

If you want to raise your own high-quality eggs and save money, read on to find out what to grow for feed and forage and how to manage your foraging areas.

This article discusses how cottonseeds are used in our products and daily life.

Wool fiber is used to make clothes, bedding and insulation. It is renewable and recyclable. Wool is a wonder fabric that keeps you warm in winter and cool in summer.

Raising animals for the purpose of human consumption appears to be something of a moral and ethical dilemma, and here's why: Animals including cattle, sheep, chickens, hogs, geese, ducks, goats, and all others are living, thinking, feeling beings...

American farmers got soybeans from China originally, but now soybeans raised in the USA are being sent to China in spectacular volumes

Permaculture communities work with nature, not against it.

Raising geese is a lot easier than you may think. The effort is well worth it especially if you use the natural tendencies of the geese to benefit you. Read on to learn about weeder geese, pet geese and security alarm geese!

Kombu is used in many rich dietary traditions across the world. See why people are raving about this free to forage species of seaweed.

Support the future of food production by learning about how large-scale farming is not practical. We will have to develop more efficient and practical means of food production.

Biological pest control has advantages compared to chemical control, such as being safer for humans and the environment. It also has disadvantages. Integrated pest management may be useful in some cases.