Elderly Farmer Ordered to Pay Monsanto $84,000 for Planting Unlabeled Monsanto Soybeans

May 14, 2013 // 5:23 pm

Pro tip: If you’re an elderly small-time soybean farmer, make sure you’re really, really careful not to piss off huge GMO-based companies like Monsanto. That’s a lesson that 76-year-old Indiana farmer Vernon Bowman probably wishes he’d learned before a lawsuit from Monsanto went all the way to the…

UK Dating Site ‘Muddy Matches’ is for Farmers Who Don’t Mind Getting Dirty

April 7, 2013 // 11:57 am

Looks like lonely British farmers won’t have to rely on their livestock for companionship anymore — not with the growing success of dating site “Muddy Matches,” which caters exclusively to farmers who don’t mind getting a little dirty. The rustic dating service is the brainchild of Lucy and Emma…

Farming with Drones the Next Biggest U.S. Robot Market?

February 7, 2013 // 4:03 pm

Farmers are looking into the possibility of utilizing plane drones to spray crops, scan soil patterns and perform other tasks on American farms.

As the country’s contentious use of drones continues, the Department of Defense moves on to newer UAV models and the question of what to do with…