Katy Rogers, the farm manager at Teter Organic Farm and Retreat Center, holds a flat of plants inside greenhouse at the facility, Thursday, March 21, 2024, in Noblesville, Ind. Rogers said in many ...

“We find that organic cropland generally leads to a decrease in pesticide use on nearby organic fields,” said lead author Ashley Larsen, an ecologist at UCSB’s Bren School of Environmental Science & ...

Organic agriculture may be as old as dirt, but that doesn’t mean its impact on pesticide use is fully understood. Claire Powers is doing her part to change that.. Powers, a PhD candidate in ...

While Gov. Gavin Newsom traveled to an organic farm to sign his executive order in 2020, the 73-page draft document does not mention organic agriculture or pesticides, though the agency is still ...

(Beyond Pesticides, February 16, 2021) The climate crisis, with unprecedented temperature shifts, storms, and wildfires, and the devastating decline in biodiversity are escalating as a result of ...

(Beyond Pesticides, May 10, 2024) A study published by scientists in France from La Rochelle University’s Chizé Center for Biological Studies, in collaboration with the University of Strasbourg and ...

Even now, running an organic farm means you have to sell the idea of organic farming, as well as the produce that grows there. Unless, of course, you farm in Boulder County.

Organic agriculture may be as old as dirt, but that doesn’t mean its impacts are fully understood. A team of scientists in the United States and Canada are doing their part to change that.

Walter Goldstein, a corn breeder in Wisconsin who produces both organic and non-organic seed, grew up working on an organic farm amid conventional ones and still remembers pesticide drift.

Champions of organic farming have long portrayed it as friendlier to humans and the earth. But a new study in a California county found a surprising effect as their acreage grew: Nearby ...