Monoculture farming -- which involves growing only one type of crop at a time on a specific field -- is a common agricultural practice, especially in the U.S., which has about 440 million acres ...

We hear plenty about species going extinct, but much less about particular breeds of animals, especially those we’ve domesticated. But as developing countries follow the Western example and ...

Corn and soybeans make up, incredibly, nearly 40 percent of what’s currently grown in 13 farm country states (Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri ...

The study comes as farms across much of the world are increasingly growing just one type of crop or raising a single kind of animal—a transition to “monoculture” agriculture that may bring with it a ...

Wilkinson studied agriculture in the 1970s when monoculture was encouraged after a post-World War II drive for the U.K. to import less food and become more self-sufficient.

The term "monoculture" usually pops up in How the World Works when quoting the rhetoric of critics of industrial agriculture. Monocultures prevail when only one species or strain of a plant (or ...

Let’s go, Thomas J. Vilsack, Secretary of the US Department of Agriculture, hailing from Iowa, land of the newly progressive. Lead the way. Looking for news you can trust?

If, instead, you define “agriculture” as “large-scale monoculture farming primarily for export,” the answer is different. The two cases are pineapple and sugar cane.