On farms in coastal areas around the Chesapeake Bay, and increasingly on farms located further inland, lush cropland will occasionally be plagued with spots of salty, barren soil. These spots occur ...

Kelby Johnson stands next to a sand filtration system used for drip irrigation on his 100-acre farm in Benson on Nov. 16, 2023. The Johnson family has worked the farm for the past 150 years and Kelby ...

Harvesting salt from the sea is a practice that goes back millennia in Hawaii. The Polynesian voyagers likely found crystallized salt collecting in the rocks along the shoreline when they arrived in ...

For the 100-acre Johnson Family Farms in Cache County, things are generally looking up. Kelby Johnson, who runs the farm with his brother Braydon Johnson, recently left his side-job to run the farm ...