The three-day NDSU Extension safety camps teach youth about a variety of topics including proper tractor and all-terrain vehicle operation, and livestock handling. North Dakota State University ...

BALLSTON SPA, N.Y. – Farm jobs are cool and there are all kinds to choose from. That’s what state Labor Commissioner Roberta Reardon told kids in award-winning teacher Amy Gosier’s first-grade ...

For students visiting Hadden Farms this week, the classroom comes to life when they step out into the dirt, reach for ears of corn and come face-to-face with the animals, crops and machinery that turn ...

If there’s a romantic image that tugs at our heart strings as much as the thought of homegrown tomatoes, it’s that of the multi-generational family farm. In a culture that has spurned the union of the ...

I did not realize at the time, growing up on an Illinois dairy farm in the 1950s, that I was gaining skills and learning lessons that would last me a lifetime. Ours was a self sufficient dairy farm ...

Suisun Valley K-8 School teacher Heather Merodio cut pieces of a broccoli flower, handing the knubby, green segments to her fifth-grade agri-science students, some 20 in all, seated on the edges of a ...