Agriculture

Utah food producers provide products that are unique to the state referred to as specialty crops. In the Cropping Up series, Utah Public Radio has been featuring some of these crops, their health benefits, and the role they play in helping us access fresh food.

Sharing the pain of scarcity goes against Western water law – but this Nevada farm community is trying it anyway.

At the end of a visit to Cache Valley last week Gov. Spencer Cox held an agriculture town hall. During the hour-long Q&A he addressed the concerns of the county's farmers and ranchers.

Learn how specialty crops and Utah food pantries play a pivotal role in increasing accessibility of fresh produce from Utah growers.

Changes in the sea surface can cause everything from heat waves to extreme storms in the American West, and rising global temperatures often affect those patterns for the worse.

Keeping a farmer’s fields free of weeds isn’t like removing dandelions from a garden. The sheer size means that herbicides are often necessary, yet those chemicals may harm soil health and pollinators, and they can run off into rivers and groundwater.

Overgrazing can damage vulnerable rangelands, and the methane and nitrogen cattle emit contributes to rising global temperatures.

When Navajo people were forced from their land in the 1800s, U.S. government troops destroyed their crops in a starvation campaign that included ripping thousands of peach trees from the soil.

Learn how specialty crops and farmers markets play a pivotal role in increasing low-income shoppers' purchasing power while supporting Utah growers.

A kinder approach to the soil could be what Idaho farmers need to get more out of their land.