Insights into the Business of Farming

The Business of Farming

Farmers have always needed to understand business, but those demands have only increased with globalized markets, extreme weather, and more. Learn how farming copes with its own change and that of a changing world in our business of farming series.

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How Can Farmers Respond to Extreme Weather?

Wild weather isn’t going away, and the costs to farmers can be ruinous. Farmers are fighting back by focusing on the soil.

Extreme Weather

Women in Agriculture

Women make up nearly half of all global farmers. Feeding our population depends on helping them.

Women in Agriculture

Agtech Venture Capital Funding is Flourishing

Some of the smartest venture capital investments are going to an unexpected sector: agriculture. AgFunder founder Rob Leclerc explains why.

Why AgtechVenture Capital Funding is Flourishing

Farmers and the Future of Food

There will be billions more people to feed over the coming 30 years, increasing calorie requirements as poverty recedes, limited natural resources to work with, and a changing climate. Solving this interlocking puzzle depends on farmers.

Farmers and the Future of Food

Women Farmers Breaking Barriers

Women are still fighting for equity in farming, despite statistics that suggest a majority of food worldwide is grown by them. They still lack support and a clear path toward leadership, but women themselves are leading the change.

Supporting Women Farmers by Breaking Barriers

Urban Farming

Most people hear “farm” and think “rural,” but urban farmers like Jamila Norman are showing how growing food right in the heart of big cities can nourish populations in more ways than one.

Urban Farming

Rethinking Farm Work | Corteva Agriscience

"We have a burgeoning population to feed, and while the challenge is great, there is hope. Learn more from Corteva Agriscience™ https://www.corteva.com/who-we- are/outlook.html There are far more mouths to feed than there were a few decades ago, but

Rethinking Farm Work | Corteva Agriscience

The New Face of Farming | French Farmers

You don't have to grow up on a farm to be a farmer. You don't have to be a man, or an American. These French farmers are transforming the face of farming with fresh ideas and expertise.

The New Face of Farming | French Farmers

You don't have to grow up on a farm to be a farmer. You don't have to be a man, or an American. These French farmers are transforming the face of farming with fresh ideas and expertise.

Rethinking Farm Work | Corteva Agriscience

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From Pageant Queen to Growing Greens

Akosua Kyerewaa Yeboah-Ghansah took her celebrity as a beauty pageant winner and used it to help young women build careers in agriculture, building Miss Agriculture Ghana, a national pageant that crowns winners based on their farming, not their figures.

Growing Greens

Agricultural Extension

Extension workers are a crucial educational lifeline for farmers, especially in Africa, where they share the know-how that can lift farmers’ lives, but more investment is needed.

Agricultural Extension

Recruiting Agriculture’s Future

Industries everywhere are grappling with worker shortages, both now and in the future. Farming is not immune, and recruiter Shannon Douglass is working to fill the new breed of farm jobs.

Recruiting Ag’s Future

Farmers with Agribusiness MBAs

The business of farming isn’t as simple as it used to be. That’s why many young farmers are earning master’s degrees in agribusiness.

Farmers with Agribusiness MBAs

Farm Advice

Despite their go-it-alone reputation, farmers are voracious consumers of advice and information. The challenge? Sifting through it all to arrive at the right decision for their fields.

Farm Advice

Where are the New Young Farmers?

The average age for farmers is 60, even in youthful Africa. The lure of urban opportunity combined with high barriers to entry make it challenging to recruit young people, but youth-oriented farming organizations are working to reverse the trend.

New Young Farmers

Farm to Foodbank

The COVID-19 pandemic shattered food distribution networks, but quick-thinking volunteers and entrepreneurs stepped in to set up new ways of getting fresh food to the people who needed it.

Farm to Foodbank

Agriculture Marketing

Crop marketing has always been a prime concern of farmers, but with usual routes to market hampered by the COVID-19 pandemic, innovative farmers developed new techniques—from diversification to direct-to-consumer—to find buyers.

Agriculture Marketing