A profitable, drought-tolerant crop can be a welcome addition to a dryland rotation in the arid Intermountain West. Particularly following a push for clean fuels created by the U.S. Energy Policy Act of 2005, camelina (Camelina sativa) entrepreneurs have been making the case for expanding acres of this oilseed.

We need pollinators to sustain our food supply and our ecosystems.

In order to plan how to fulfill the world's increasing need for food, research at Kansas State University is part of an international effort advocating for a new method to evaluate crop output potential and shortfalls.

“Commercial watermelon farms in Idaho? Doesn’t that contradict some basic law of nature? I thought commercial watermelons were all grown in California,” says the native Idahoan. Well, this isn’t true anymore. 

Once in a while, you run across one of those farmers who will try a variety of crops and practices to look for profitable and sustainable opportunities. Josh Jones is one of them.