Lindsay Campbell

It doesn’t always pay to be an egg farmer—just ask Cliff Lillywhite. The owner and president of Oakdell Egg Farms, in North Salt Lake, UT, says he’s never experienced a year more difficult or more disruptive than the one that’s just passed. “Our farms were not spared from bird flu,” says Lillywhite, referencing two separate incidents that required him to cull nearly half of his flock, more than one million chickens. There is the emotional impact of culling an inflected flock and there’s the fi…

The Ontario Federation of Agriculture says the Ford government’s new housing bill, in its current state, contributes to the demise of farmland.

Senators on the agriculture and forestry committee hope recommendations in their new report on B.C. flooding are promptly addressed.

In an interview with iPolitics, Sen. Rob Black discusses issues in agriculture and agri-food he learned about firsthand while touring the country this summer.

The developing technology would help tackle food insecurity in arid locations.

A new book offers an overlooked perspective of Indigenous knowledge and the role it can play in the face of climate change.

The latest tech innovation to land in the fields.

With Sistah Seeds, Amirah Mitchell aims to make culturally significant heirlooms more readily available.

Indigenous farmer Amyrose Foll has sought to lift up a nation through the act of growing and providing food.

Night owls and hopeless romantics—this one’s for you.

Those who celebrate Christmas know that the holiday wouldn’t be complete without a tall, wiry coniferous tree, draped in lights and decorations. Despite the convenience of owning an artificial tree, many Americans still appreciate the authenticity of having a real one in their homes. Last year Americans bought 26.2 million real trees, according to the National Christmas Tree Association. There’s no denying that an annual trip out to the farm to pick the perfect tree makes for a memorable family…

Jay Cutler is a man of many occupations: Football player, farmer, and now chicken murder detective. About a week ago, the former Chicago Bears quarterback, who owns a farm in Nashville, kept coming across grizzly decapitated chickens on his property. He spent the following days consumed with trying to find the culprit. He took to Instagram to document his pursuit of the heartless creature that was responsible for ripping his chickens’ heads off. This week, a break came in the case, as Cutler ca…

Sean Sherman sees a lot of oppression when he thinks about the world that Indigenous people live in. The Oglala Lakota chef, who is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has spent many years trying to change that with food. In 2014, Sherman started the Sioux Chef, an Indigenous catering and education business, but noticed quickly that there was a greater need to help heal his community from the effects of colonization by reconnecting them with the original food of his ancestors. “There’s so much know…

As if the rising human death toll from COVID-19 wasn’t enough to worry about, an outbreak of a highly contagious disease is now threatening the country’s rabbits. Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease Virus type 2 (RHDV2) is spreading across the United States, wiping out wild rabbits. The disease first began killing rabbits in March in New Mexico, but has since moved to Colorado, Arizona, Texas, California and Nevada. Humans are not susceptible to this disease. According to the USDA, RHDV2 only impacts r…

Fish sticks are a frozen food favorite for many, but a new study might make you think twice about sinking your teeth into the processed product. Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have found that the process of making fish sticks, imitation crab and fish fillets using Alaskan pollock has a fairly significant carbon footprint. Their study found that this process can generate almost twice as much greenhouse gases as fishing alone. A lot of research has been done about the en…

A group of researchers has unearthed a piece of agricultural history that shows a pair of lost crops on which indigenous communities could have relied as much as traditionally grown corn. In a recent paper in the Journal of Ethnobiology, researchers examined germination requirements and yield for goosefoot and erect knotweed, two plants that were once harvested in eastern North America for thousands of years and then abandoned. Lead author Natalie Mueller grew the plants and found that, grown to…

A group of Minnesota researchers have determined that plant biodiversity hasn’t returned to fields abandoned by farmers years ago. Their recent study, published in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution last month, found that farmland deserted between one and 91 years ago has generally been unable to regain its natural variety of species or amount of plants. Researchers used 37 years of plant data from 21 Minnesota grasslands and savannahs. Most of this land had been plowed for agricultural use…