Originally published by Hannah Ritchie at Our World in Data. Republished here under a Creative Commons license. Humans have been reshaping the planet’s land for millennia by clearing wildlands to grow ...

A recent USDA study found the majority of agricultural land near solar and wind farms remains in agricultural use, despite the expansion of renewable energy projects. This finding challenges concerns ...

Food, feed, fiber, and bioenergy: The demand for agricultural raw materials is rising. How can additional cultivation areas be reconciled with nature conservation? Researchers have developed a ...

Agricultural land values increased by $280 an acre over 2022, according to USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service. The Land Values 2023 Summary report, released on August 4, shows a 7.4% ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — New, groundbreaking research shows how, at a local scale, agricultural research and development led to improved crop varieties that resulted in global benefits to the ...

Agricultural land values increased by $200 an acre over last year, according to USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service. The Land Values 2024 Summary report, released on August 2, shows a 5% ...

In Dixie County, cornstalks sway like dancers in a warm fall breeze. Twenty miles down the Suwannee where the river meets the Gulf of Mexico, seagrass mirrors the corn’s gentle wave, pushed by ...

While Hollywood and Silicon Valley love the limelight, California is an agricultural powerhouse, too. Agricultural products sold in the Golden State totaled $59 billion in 2022. But rising ...

Farmland conservation advocates say Oregon’s land use planning program has historically done a good job at protecting farmland. But they say it’s concerning to see continued decrease of farmland, ...