Agriculture

Aaron Fletcher has lived off the land for 12 years as a roaming shepherd, offering his services to farms in exchange for a place to spend the night.

"You boys think you're living in just the best time of the world's history, but it's no better than [what] our father's had."

At a time when thousands of Americans are lining up in food bank lines, why are farmers dumping their milk? Vox explains how the coronavirus has created an unprecedented supply chain problem.

With the United States' population expected to grow an additional 100 million people in the next century, it's interesting to see how are we're currently utilizing our land.

What happens when your agricultural community runs out of water? THis dark and incredible doc from Joris Debeij explores that question with beautiful visuals and interviews.

The hidden pipe problem associated with agriculture.

Sometimes you have to leave "why?" at the door and embrace the madness.

Here, podcasters Brendan O'Hare and Cory Snearowski have crafted a soundscape that's sort of in line with what you might expect from "Tim and Eric" or "I Think You Should Leave." It's great.

And why today's banana companies are afraid. Very afraid.

We're feeling awfully deprived now that we're doubtful that we've ever eaten real "wasabi."

Follow fourth-generation sugar cane farmer Wenceslaus "June" Provost Jr. as he fights to protect his family's agricultural legacy.

Cows are notorious for being hard to manage so this farmer came up with an "innovative" solution.

How did we go from our supermarkets being dominated by "Red Delicious" to a sea of new apple upstarts?

Of course people farm frogs. Of course. That's a thing that makes sense. It's just also a thing that we've never, ever had to think about before and it's sort of twisting our minds.

Or any mom, for that matter, or prepare to suffer the consequences.

You know exactly what's going to happen here, but that doesn't make the outcome any less sweet.

Take a tour inside an egg processing facility where eggs are checked for cleanliness, strength, size, shape and air pocket content.

One night in 1992, farmer Jeff Ditzenberger walked into an abandoned house near his farm in Monroe, Wisconsin and lit it on fire. He had no intention of walking out alive. But as the walls caught fire around him, he changed his mind. And he walked out.

These poor cattle in Australia are suffering through a historical drought, so their owner has to drive a tanker full of water through the herd so they get enough to drink.

He's saving the farmers from the effects of the trade war that he started.