4 Sustainable Farming Techniques Making a Difference

Agriculture has changed dramatically since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. 300 years ago, the vast majority of the world’s farms were subsistence operations — farmers raised crops to feed themselves and their families, devoting whatever land they had left over (often little or nothing) to cash crops that they could sell at the market. The most popular cash crops of yore were either edible delicacies or inedible raw materials, like cotton and tobacco.

Fast forward to the present. An 18th-century farmer dropped in the middle of Nebraska or California’s Central Valley would be dumbfounded by the scale and efficiency of …read more