World Agri-Tech

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

While other crops like corn have exponentially benefited from hybrid technology over the years, challenges with wheat production systems have presented barriers to consistently and cost-effectively leveraging such game-changing technology – ultimately limiting the ability to deliver meaningful yield improvements.

Technology 52

Technology Yield Soil Science Seeding 52

Modern Farmer

JUNE 27, 2024

The three team members—Rudman, Oliver Aurand and Kevin Reiss, who met in 2023 on a nearby farm—bring backgrounds in soil science, anthropology and just over a decade of combined field hand experience. But Friends Farm was also founded on the idea that farming is about more than cultivating vegetables.

Grain 135

Grain Farming Farming Food 135

Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

At her 6-acre Sakari Farms outside Bend, Oregon, Schreiner employs traditional ecological knowledge to cultivate regional first foods —foods consumed before European colonialization—and passes that expertise down to Native American youth.

Food 145

Food Agriculture Agriculture Seeding 145

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Sprinkled throughout the recipes are fascinating historical tidbits about the Quaker who first cultivated rhubarb in the 1730s, for example, and the Indigenous tribes that used spruce tip tea to ward off scurvy. She does yield a few pages to sustainable farming practices, like soil management, though these are more buzzwords than insights.

Food 145

Food Farming Farming Seeding 145