Farmers are used to getting paid for raising a quality product — soybeans, sweet corn, apples, peppers. But a farm’s value lies in its soils, too. What if farmers could get paid for building a quality soil? Just like markets…

Farmers are used to getting paid for raising a quality product — soybeans, sweet corn, apples, peppers. But a farm’s value lies in its soils, too. What if farmers could get paid for building a quality soil? Just like markets…
When the Farmers for a Sustainable Future coalition started looking at publicly available data on agricultural production and its role in the environment, what it found was “a pretty amazing story,” said Andrew Walmsley, American Farm Bureau Federation director of…
When the Farmers for a Sustainable Future coalition started looking at publicly available data on agricultural production and its role in the environment, what it found was “a pretty amazing story,” said Andrew Walmsley, American Farm Bureau Federation director of…
Full stop. The first case of COVID-19 was officially diagnosed in Ohio March 9, and the Ohio Department of Health ordered everyone to stay at home beginning March 23. Suddenly, schools across Ohio closed. Downtown office buildings emptied. Grocery stores…
Ray Jackson realized it when he looked at his Logan County farm’s numbers and saw that 2014 was the last time his 70-head dairy herd made any money. And he realized it every day when he visited struggling dairy farms…