Green House Gas Emissions are a major cause of catastrophic climate change.   Of Green House Gas Emissions, Agriculture is responsible for 8 % and livestock alone represents 4%.  Consequently suggested solutions have included drastic cutbacks in meat c...

Vertical integration is the combination of stages of the productions system.  With food products, that usually means a farmer or rancher selling to a processor who may then sell to a manufacturer and finally to either a retail store or restaurant.

Farm-to-Fork isn’t a passing fad or a marketing slogan in the Sacramento region – it’s the favored way. The region has been an agricultural powerhouse for centuries, boasting a year-round growing season, ideal climate and a "mouth-watering bounty" of c...

Mexican and Spanish land grants created massive ranchos years before California became part of the United States. Later the Gold Rush lured the ambitious and adventurous from all over the world. One such dreamer was Heinrich Alfred Kreiser,

Rich Collins was a 4 year old in the city when first he knew that he wanted to be a farmer when he grew up. Now on a farm he calls "Journey's End" he can look back at productive years of farming, then a vegetable that he learned about as a dishwasher b...

  - We need new farmers and unhappy careerists wish they could farm. Is this a "just do it" moment?  There are a million reasons that it might not be that simple, but there are thousands of people who have concluded that they can't take the "rat race"...

A jury in San Francisco awarded $289 million dollars to DeWayne "Lee" Johnson, a school groundskeeper who sued Monsanto because he has a terminal prognosis due to a cancer (Non Hodgkins Lymphoma) caused by his exposure to the weed killer Round Up and i...

  - Grass fed lamb is not a new idea; in fact it is a couple thousand years old but it's being newly discovered by Millennials and meat lovers who want the protein on their dinner plates to be delicious and sustainably produced--preferably with fe...

Tariffs are taxes on food and farming. It starts off sounding distant and hopefully strategic, then degenerates into retaliation.  Still trade "war" is an abstract concept for most of the public until the 'chickens come home to roost' months or years l...

  - Every minute we lose 3 acres of farm land, according to Jimmy Daukus, the Senior Program Officer of American Farmland Trust.  That is bad news for a hungry world since less farmland  means less food when we need much more food to feed a global...