This week, a story in The New York Times points up an unlikely target for the Environmental Protection Agency: the Amish farmers of Pennsylvania's Lancaster County. Though you'd think these technology ...

While growing up on a farm in Indiana we used to always get up at 4 a.m. to milk the cows. We would milk the cows by hand. Dad liked to have the cows milked at the same time each day, morning and ...

CHICAGO -- Forget Fluffy and Fido. Bessie the cow just might make a healthier pet. That idea stems from new research in two farming-based religious communities that shun modern ways but have ...

Golden sunlight stretches wide over the Iowa hayfields in early September. At the Yoder farm near Bloomfield, a girl waves a hearty hello. This is Regina, age 15. Besides household chores, she and her ...

LANCASTER, Pa. -- With simplicity as their credo, Amish farmers consume so little that some might consider them model environmental citizens. But farmers are facing growing scrutiny for agricultural ...

CHICAGO — Forget Fluffy and Fido. Bessie the cow just might make a healthier pet. That idea stems from new research in two farming-based religious communities that shun modern ways but have ...