Farmer Mike Cirone prepares to pick dry-farmed apples in his orchard in See Canyon, near San Luis Obispo. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times) Leaves rustled as Mike Cirone reached into a tree and gently ...

The Dry Farming Collaborative at Oregon State University will convene on Feb. 8 to discuss dry farming techniques and the results from trials using the method. Dry farming employs techniques like ...

Aug. 1—Three farmsteads on about 200 acres of land in Lower Heidelberg Township owned by the Army Corps of Engineers serve as a way of preserving the historic agrarian lifestyle disrupted by the ...

There’s been a lot of chatter in recent years about natural wines, those crafted from grapes grown organically or biodynamically on small farms, with minimal intervention and few, if any, additives.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Dry farming sounds like a contradiction in terms. But it’s actually a growing trend to teach farmers how to do more with less — specifically less water. Lane Selman, an Oregon ...

As growing seasons become hotter and drier across the region, farmers are increasingly challenged to grow and sustain their crops. Now Oregon State University is close to launching a dry farming map ...

After a long dry spell in April and May, farmers are welcoming recent rains — but some are still contending with the effects of dry weather on their crops. The recent rains and thunderstorms have ...

Jacques Neukom farms melons, corn and peaches for market with a twist — he doesn’t irrigate them. Neukom has been farming for almost 30 years near Willow Creek, Calif., and his farm is one of a ...

For Tod Mostero, Director of Viticulture and Winemaking at Dominus, the jump from architecture to a dry-farmed vineyard wasn’t as far as you might think. “Architecture is what happens when man meets a ...

Dry farming cannabis shows new levels of symbiosis with the ecosystem and great sun-grown pot. While dry farms are said to only make up a dozen cannabis cultivation operations in California, the ...

Dry season farming in the past was a mere subsistence farming until of recent when it was turned to means of livelihood through CBN intervention fund writes SINA FADARE Climate change all over the ...