Changing weather patterns pose significant challenges for modern dairy farmers—excessive hot or cold temperatures, drought and humidity can have a detrimental effect on cows' health, which ultimately ...

Games like FarmVille have developed vast followings, but how much time and effort are some top players putting into them? And is it healthy? We talk to some of the companies involved and the players ...

A new interactive "carbon calculator" tool can help dairy farmers see sustainability principles in action and improve farm management decisions related to climate change. The carbon calculator expands ...

Many people would like to see better animal welfare and transparency in livestock farming. In recent years, agriculture has increasingly tried to be more open, for example through farm tours. Even ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Virtual Farm Turn a small family farm into a booming success in Virtual Farm, a fun simulation that puts you in charge! Choose your crops, water your fields ...

Okay, so it seemed just a matter of time until the world's most famous fast food joint, McDonald's, teamed up with the world's biggest social game developer, San Francisco-based Zynga. Okay, so it ...

FarmVille has become of the most popular social game applications for Facebook for my generation, and the creators must be laughing in almost incomprehensible proportions at the millions they must be ...

A virtual farm attracting up to 83 million aspiring farmers monthly has video game developers scrambling to find ways to plough the booming popularity of games on social networks. Sites like Facebook, ...

Oregon dairy producer Dan Bansen will travel more than 3,000 miles round-trip next week to tell the dairy world how his family succeeded in building a top-ranked registered Jersey operation. Bansen is ...

The stallion show and virtual farm tour will feature owner Janice Jordan and farm manager Tara Mathias sharing information on their breeding and boarding farm and how breeders can participate in the ...

Better-than-expected yields are set to produce a profit of £289/ha for the Virtual Farm from the 2015 harvest. This is an improvement on budget but actual yields and prices illustrate very clearly the ...

First wheat cost of production rose by 26% to £150/t on the Farmers Weekly/Savills Virtual Farm in 2012. The increase was mainly due to a 19% drop in yield, although higher fungicide use is also ...