On a sprawling site an hour north of Paris in the French city of Amiens, a new vertical farm now under construction won’t be growing lettuce or vegetables. Instead, it will soon begin raising hundreds ...

In the mid-2010s, insects were hailed as the future of food — a way to sustainably feed the world’s growing human population ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Besides being big business, insect farms also provide important sources of protein and income for rural households. They can be ...

Economic thresholds are one of the most trusted tools in insect management. They help growers decide when pest populations justify treatment before economic injury occurs. The concept is foundational ...

Despite the initial hype, insect agriculture is facing the economic realities of competing with the traditional meat industry.

A corn-fed insect could provide North Dakota’s next value-added ag product. An investment firm is developing a plan to bring an insect farm to North Dakota, with protein-rich larvae supplying the ...

A widely-used agricultural chemical sprayed on fruits and vegetables to prevent fungal disease is also killing beneficial insects that play a critical role in pollination and wider ecosystems. New ...

On a recent hot Saturday morning at the Des Moines Farmers Market, lots of people walked by a tent that had signs hanging from it: “dare to eat differently” and “eat prairie lobster.” Some people ...

I didn't grow up on a farm, but I lived on a farm as an adult child, I would say. When I came back from college, my father was farming by that time. I really know the difficulties of farming and how ...

Extension entomologist Ben Thrash reveals which soybean insects threaten yields and which farmers can safely ignore in new ...