Vertical gardens and composting are among the 4-H projects to help African families produce their own food
Change is needed so that valuable, non-renewable fertilizers are recycled
Just 30 per cent of farms have done formal succession planning
Increasing farm cash receipts don’t tell the whole story, as the cost of inputs like fuel and fertilizer continue to rise
Farm cash receipts are up in Manitoba for the first nine months of 2013. Way up. According to numbers released by Statistics Canada, Manitoba has seen an increase of 14.7 per cent or $500 million — the largest increase in Canada — over the same period last year. Farm cash receipts for Canadian farmers totalledOne economist says that if rural Australia were a member country of the euro zone, international financial markets would be refusing to finance the sector
The closer West Australian farmers get to seeding time, which is any time after the end of April, the more intense the debate becomes whether the eastern Wheat Belt will ever be the same again. Now there are reports of farmers abandoning their land and walking off. Enough is enough for some. The old men
