agriculture

Today, translating campaign rhetoric into real talk about trade and tariffs. Also, the grinding hard work of modern agriculture, and an innovation that might be enough to keep one Michigan family in the game. Plus, an elegant and insightful history about the utopian vision of Detroit’s Shrine of the Black Madonna.

Michigan State’s Jason Rowntree is out to prove that ranching is an ecological asset.

Experts say labor costs and competition from imports are causing specialty crop growers—including apple and cherry producers—to sell their farms or switch to other crops.

What Michigan farmers are up against in the changing climate and growing seasons. Also today, what’s wrong with Michigan’s housing stock. A discussion on a new study of statewide housing needs. Growing interest in native plants. Then, a short history of Gerrymandering in the United States and Michigan lessons about reclaiming representation.

The Agricultural Climate Resiliency Program has chosen four projects to fund for its inaugural round, with each getting $1.25 million over three years.

On today's Stateside, what to know about avian flu, how Ann Arbor Public Schools administrators plan to handle the budget deficit, and a new Detroit art installation tackles environmental racism.

Analyzing Michigan's "Uncommitted" vote from this week's presidential primary, new ways to connect small farms to city consumers, and celebrating Grand Rapids' Latino history.

A preview of Governor Whitmer's State of the State address tonight, Wayne County's new mobile mental health units, and how farmers can manage their soil to capture carbon.

University of Michigan researchers say their research may be hard to accept for some, but it's clear the carbon footprint of food grown on urban farms is larger than food grown conventionally. How to narrow the gap is the next step.

The Michigan legislature is considering a bill that would require farm equipment manufacturers to make specialized tools and software available to farmers and third party repair shops instead of forcing farmers to get service from a dealership.