Farms

Environmental professionals are in Grand Rapids this week attending the Michigan Sustainability Conference where the focus is cutting food waste in half by 2030

A new effort to increase donated food in Michigan’s charitable food system launched today

Kent County is strengthening its farmland preservation efforts as it moves into 2026

We talk to Haley Stichman, Community Development Coordinator with Kent County.

The tick poses a potential disease risk to all mammals, but the risk to livestock is a major concern. It was detected with the help of Calvin University

Much of the verdict last week, $450,000, was in the form of punitive damages against Purpose Point Harvesting for violating an antitrafficking law

A Lansing-based nonprofit providing job training for people with disabilities has acquired a hydroponics farm in Caledonia

Crain’s Grand Rapids Business staff writer Mark Sanchez talks about the region’s 2025 economic outlook and how Michigan farms are preparing for immigration workforce audits. But first, how the threat of tariffs is impacting West Michigan manufacturing hiring.

Kent County landowners seeking farmland protection from future development can now apply to its Purchase of Development Rights program

Michigan's Christmas tree farmers say 2024 provided better growing conditions than compared to last year.