The best rhubarb is grown at night, with no sunlight. They call it "forced rhubarb" which sounds awfully non-consensual. ambrook.com/offrange/crops…

Small-scale farming remains extremely un-mechanized across Africa. But a handful of startups is trying to get tractors to smallholder farmers through creative financing and equipment sharing. New from @amir_onimisi, in collaboration with Egab: ambrook.com/offrange/suppl…

Some California producers are reporting up to 70% crop loss from grasshoppers. Where is the federal management agency that’s designed to assist with this very problem? My latest for Offrange: ambrook.com/offrange/crops…

"Using Bees to Spread Pesticides," my latest for Offrange, looking at a buzz-worthy biological control solution to pests and plant diseases destroying between 20 and 40 percent of the global annual harvest: ambrook.com/offrange/techn…

Global coffee production is under threat from disease and climate change. Here in the U.S. we're also likely to see prices spike as tariff fallout continues. But what if we grew our own, in Florida? New from Diana Kruzman: ambrook.com/offrange/crops…

Gravel cycling is a fast-growing off-road sport, with new races popping up all over the country. It's a boon for local tourism, but some farmers and ranchers have been upset by cyclists and fans trashing their properties. New from Amanda Loudin: ambrook.com/offrange/cultu…

During the pandemic, urban farming saw a big resurgence, receiving a bunch of new funding opportunities to fill in gaps in our strained supply chain. Now the USDA has cut virtually all funding for urban ag — can these farms make it? Ben Seal has more: ambrook.com/offrange/legis…

Socorro, Texas, once hosted the Rio Vista Bracero Reception Center, where tens of thousands of Mexican migrant farmworkers entered the U.S. in the mid-20th century. Marianne Dhennin looked into the center's troubled past — and its more hopeful future: ambrook.com/offrange/labor…

NASA has an entire subagency called NASA Acres, dedicated to using their sophisticated satellite data to help farmers. The biggest issue: No one has heard of them! donavyn has more: ambrook.com/offrange/techn…

"All the spending money [many mountaineers] had came from nuts they had gathered on other people’s land. This was a completely different picture than I’d understood before.” What if agriculture centered on acorns & other tree crops? From Daniel Walton: ambrook.com/offrange/persp…

There are a number of reasons tractor theft is on the rise: skyrocketing price of steel/used equipment, isolated rural storage, lack of security, etc. But also? Many farmers leave their keys in the ignition. Elissa Welle, PhD has more: ambrook.com/offrange/suppl…

"Fried chicken and pineapple notes" — We sent a correspondent to the first-ever conference on the science and craft of raw milk cheese. It got deep: ambrook.com/offrange/cultu…

Traditional veterinarians are increasingly non-Western practices like acupuncture and kinesiology into their treatments of horses, cattle, and other livestock. Ag correspondent Bruce Derksen has more: ambrook.com/offrange/lives…