farms
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We’re Growing Twice As Much Food (with Far Fewer Farms) Than We Used To
How do you grow more food? One answer that makes sense is with bigger farms and more farmers. But if you look at the last half century-or-so worth of data, that’s not at all what’s been happening.
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By 2080, Corn Won’t Be America’s Top Crop Anymore
America has a huge, sprawling, incredibly productive agricultural system, the slow-grown product of its history as a farming nation. But that system has already begun changing — and what Americans growing on those farms is going to change dramatically too.
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Amazing Aerial Photos Of Greenhouses Blanketing The Spanish Landscape
The area in southern Spain known as mar del plástico is a landscape dominated by vast stretches of greenhouse farms. From the ground, it looks like nothing but roads winding through a maze of covered crops. But when seen from the air in photographer Bernhard Lang’s images, things look a bit more surreal.
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World’s Largest QR Code Is Stupidly Pointless
This is officially the world’s largest QR code. Carved into a field of maze in Alberta, Canada, it measures 28,760 square metres and links to the Kraay Family Farm website.