By Kathryn Reed As the temps soared last weekend in the Lake Tahoe Basin, it was time for one of my favorite warm weather activities – fire up the barbecue. While others barbecue year-round, we are definitely fair-weather grillers. One of my favorite veggies to grill is asparagus. I never get tired...

By Rob Sabo, Northern Nevada Business Weekly Farmers in Northern Nevada are all ears to proposals that they grow corn to diversify their crops and provide feed for Fallon-area dairy farms. It’s yet another way that a big dry-milk plant under construction in Churchill County is sending ripples across...

By P.J. Huffstutter and Niu Shuping, Reuters Inside a dimly lit barn in northeast Indiana, where the air smells faintly of corn and earth, the future of China’s food supply is squealing for attention. A farmhand shuffles through the crowd of pigs inside pen 7E3, patting their fleshy pink backs...

By Dan Charles, NPR We’d probably like to think that clean, safe food goes hand in hand with pristine nature, with lots of wildlife and clean water. But in the part of California that grows a lot of the country’s lettuce and spinach, these two goals have come into conflict. Environmental...

By Maggie Savarino, San Francisco Chronicle What I have always liked about beer, as opposed to wine, is that a style description on a label – IPA, doppelbock, porter – leads a drinker to a more precise expectation of what might be in the bottle. Sure, brewers color outside the lines, but...

Capital City Farm Days is May 10-11 at Fuji Park Exhibit Hall and Carson City Fairgrounds. The event organized by University of Nevada Cooperative Extension runs from 8:30am-2pm each day and includes up to 32 presenters providing information and demonstrations on ranching- and farming-related activities...

By Sarah Klein, Huffington Post You wouldn’t sit down to dinner at your favorite restaurant and order a stick of butter a la carte. You’re too smart for that — you know there’d be lots of calories and little nutrients and, most of all, lots and lots of fat. But some of the cheesy...

Educators from El Dorado and Amador counties are invited to attend the Teacher’s Ag Summer Institute set for June 19-21. The workshop will bring together classroom teachers, farmers, ranchers, environmental educators and agricultural and natural resource specialists to gain a deeper understanding of...

By Casey Seidenberg, Washington Post My 9-year-old saw a headline in my email that read “10 Foods You Should NEVER Eat!” He grabbed me and said, “Mom, have you read this? I thought there weren’t foods we should never eat. You said all foods were okay once in a while.” I was so proud. As a mom...

By Ted Burnham, NPR When the ban on slaughtering horses for human consumption was lifted in the U.S. last November, it was only a matter of time before someone applied to start the practice up again. That person is Rick De Los Santos, a New Mexico rancher and owner of Valley Meat Co. If the USDA approves...