Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

As 1,000 people move to Florida every day, it’s more important than ever that lawmakers focus on ways to protect water, native wildlife and natural landscape. Agricultural lands supply wide, open ...

MYAKKA CITY, Fla. — Welcome to Myakka City, about 30 miles east of Sarasota. The ranch is a glimpse into what Florida used to be. “Every single pavement, road, house, hospital or school, at one point ...

Across rural America, a quiet reversal is taking shape. Instead of cashing out and carving up their holdings, more ranch ...

TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Cabinet on Tuesday approved spending $19 million to conserve rural land used to raise cattle, while also expanding a list of agricultural properties the ...

OKEECHOBEE — At daybreak on a misty-blue Wednesday, a herd of cows and bulls are horseplaying on a South Florida prairie when a tractor roars to life, hoisting in its jaws a hay bale as golden as the ...

A Southwest Florida rancher is controlling cattle on his 5,000-acre property with an invisible fence as part of research exploring ways to keep livestock from trampling environmentally sensitive lands ...

Panthers are back. Florida’s still-imperiled big cat–one of the largest in the country–has bounced back from just 20 individuals to more than 160 during the last 30 years. But it’s now in danger of ...

LAKE HATCHINEHA — Longtime Floridians will recall that in decades past, before Central Florida became a tourist mecca peppered with housing developments from the Atlantic to the Gulf, venturing ...

TRENTON, Fla. (AP) – Under the “Fresh From Florida” marketing campaign offered by the state’s agriculture officials to stores and consumers, people are encouraged to buy things that are grown and ...

LAKELAND — From his home or wherever he has his laptop computer, Jim Strickland is herding cattle. Strickland, manager of Blackbeard’s Ranch in Myakka City, is one of the only, if not the only, ...