It may be hard to be-leaf, but during the winter months, 90% of vegetables come from fields in Yuma, Arizona. With 230,000 acres of land used for agriculture, Yuma county ranks third in the nation for ...

Arizona isn’t asking whether farming can survive here. It’s demonstrating, boldly, that farming can thrive here — and lead ...

The Yuma Visitor’s Bureau is offering a hands-on look at Southwest farming. “Agriculture is the number one industry in Yuma, which astounds some people because they think Arizona is nothing but dry, ...

Once the University of Arizona's local research farm completes its studies on produce, they donate it to the Food Bank.

In Yuma on Friday afternoon, Loris Allen is standing near a vintage Farmall tractor and a thresher, the two machines connected by a whirring drive belt, separating wheat from chaff. He's keeping an ...

High Country News’ twice weekly email newsletter includes our latest on-the-ground reporting and investigations from across the West. Reisner suggested a far cheaper solution: Buy out the farmers and ...

Animal-rights activists seeking to improve conditions at pig farms nationwide are rolling out undercover footage captured at a Yuma County pig farm run by Seaboard Foods. Mercy for Animals sent an ...

The date shake is a mystery to me. I have no idea how such a concoction can be so knee-buckling delicious. I like dates — a plump, succulent and healthy little fruit — but they're not a flavor that ...

A farm near Yuma, Ariz., has been identified as a suspected source of E. coli bacteria in an outbreak that has sickened scores of people in 22 states. But federal health officials cautioned Friday ...

Workers on lettuce farms sprawled across southwest Arizona, known as the “Salad Bowl of America,” are busy digging furrows in the dirt, fixing irrigation lines and preparing for their busy winter ...

REQUIREMENTS, THEY HAVE TO MEET THE REQUIREMENTS FOR TWO WEEKS BEFORE THEY CAN MOVE TEARS. >> THE CONTINUING PUSH TO GET FARMWORKERS VACCINATED BEFORE THEY RETURN TO THE CENTRAL COAST. TODAY CENTRAL - ...