AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Agriculture has helped make the Netherlands rich, but experts warn that the density of farms and the increasing number of animals in one of the most intensive agricultural ...

Local councils are giving the green light to large-scale pig and poultry farms with patchy or non-existent climate data Plans for intensive livestock “megafarms” are omitting crucial climate impacts, ...

On Tuesday, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack helped unveil his agency’s Census of Agriculture, a huge quinquennial report that covers 6 million data points and gives the current state-of-the-state of ...

The number of farms in Germany will be reduced by more than half by 2040, DZ Bank estimated in an analysis released on Friday, as German farmers protest over their financial struggles. Small farms ...

Soil health hinges more on how agricultural land is managed than whether the farming system is organic or conventional, according to a new study showing that farms with more intensive management have ...

In the United States, factory farms—also known as “concentrated animal feeding operations,” or CAFOs—have been around for decades. While they enable the cheap meat that many Americans take for granted ...

Many words we use come with hidden baggage. For instance we tend to assume that local, natural and grass-fed foods are good for our health, the environment and animal welfare, while intensive farming ...

Artificial intelligence is using satellite images to observe farms. The technique is being tested in the US to detect farms that may be illegally polluting the waterways, and has been trialled across ...