Farming

USU Extension's IMP Specialist Marion Murray is back in studio sharing some tips on combating grasshoppers for the summer season.

Recent increases in deportation rates have caused some farms to consider the agricultural worker program known as the H2-A in hopes of minimizing immigration raids.

Baby Animal Days at the American West Heritage Center gives families a chance to meet newborn animals and experience a bit of farm life.

Part cultural history, part memoir, and part elegy, “Weeds” reminds us that in losing our attachment to the land we also lose some of our humanity and something at the heart of our identity as a nation.

A key part of combating climate change is reducing harmful emissions from meat production on so-called factory farms. One group is calling for tougher regulations to cut the amount of emissions.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is spending $60 million to help tribal farmers in the Mountain West use less water amid drought – and still grow their crops.

Data on how different farming techniques remove carbon from the atmosphere have been limited, making it difficult to develop markets for landowners who work to hold carbon in their soil.

Navajo family farms once lined the San Juan River in southeast Utah, but many have fallen idle. A water rights settlement with Utah has given some Navajo residents hope those farms can return.

Great Salt Lake's outlook is improving, partially because of increased water conservation. We visited three different sites in northern Utah to learn their conservation strategies.

If the application is fully approved, it will make about 20 acres of farmland in Wellsville into a conservation easement, protecting it from future development.