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China has approved genetically modified strains of rice and corn in a move experts say could dramatically boost crop yields and help the world's most populous nation avoid food shortages.
Thousands of acres of land enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program are set to expire over the next few years. That worries some conservation groups. But a new conservation program established in the 2008 Farm Bill may be able to make up for some of the loss.
In a normal year, their fall harvest would have been in the bin nearly a month ago. But in a year f ...
The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services on Thursday began a formal investigation into the America's Polo Cup, the business entity run by Michaele and Tareq Salahi that the couple says raises funds for their charitable organization, as a host of other problems became apparent for...
Maryland plans to dramatically increase the area of the Chesapeake Bay that is closed to oyster harvests, Gov. Martin O'Malley said Thursday, offering an expanded foothold to an iconic species that has dropped to 1 percent of its peak population.
"Sustainability" is sustained on the backs of cheap, migrant labor.
Summer hogs the seasonal food spotlight, but winter offers plenty of warm fare that banishes the cold-weather blues. Bon Appetit restaurant editor Andrew Knowlton shares his list of 10 spots to tuck into timely treats.
VARIETY IS THE SPICE Basque dining at Noriega’s in Bakersfield, Calif. Bakersfield, Calif. — AT 10 minutes before noon on a Sunday it’s a cattle call at the hotel-restaurant Noriega’s here, with dozens of people crowded around the bar, drinking beer and greeting familiar faces.
The Coast Guard says a dive team has recovered the body of a 32-year-old crab fisherman who fell from a boat about 10 miles off the mouth of the Columbia River near the Oregon-Washington border.
With Facebook and MySpace providing the wind beneath their wings, a flock of online game startups have soared in one of Silicon Valley's success stories during the recession. Poll: What's your favorite Facebook game?
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Soybeans gained in Chicago, reversing an earlier decline, after China said imports this month may rise to an all-time high.
A man dove face-first into an extremely venomous, peanut-sized jellyfish in waters off northeast Australia and medics flew him to a hospital intensive care unit to treat the potentially fatal sting, officials said Friday.
The Department of Agriculture has acknowledged that policies have unjustly hurt minority farmers. So why stiffarm farmers seeking justice today?
Sen. Tom Udall says New Mexico ranchers and livestock producers who suffered from droughts and wildfires in 2008 should apply for federal aid before Dec. 10.
French Catholic priest Edward Sorin arrived in Indiana with the confidence of a young man who didn't know what he was facing.
A Terre Haute native, 49-year-old Erin Soto now oversees a federally-funded foreign aid office in India that works to lift people out of poverty.
Terry Baker made a tough call. The director of the Caring Cupboard in Palmyra chose to not order a lot of milk last week because the food pantry was only open one day. He quickly realized he had made the wrong decision.
The United States Department of Agriculture announced this week the designation of 24 North Dakota counties as primary natural disaster areas because of losses caused by the combined effects of drought, frost, cool temperatures, excessive rain and late-season snowfall, flooding, hail, and weather-related losses from insects and disease that occurred this year.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Kenya’s economic growth will probably accelerate to 2.5 percent this year from 1.7 percent in 2008, as the short rainy season helps to ease a three-year drought and boost agriculture, Finance Minister Uhuru Kenyatta said.
A small Sunday farmers’ market on the south side of the lake.
Boston Globe - By Stephanie McCrummen - Nov. 29 (News) - In recent ...
The Independent - Nov. 27 (Special Report) - The Danish haven of ...
The Guardian - By Anne Perkins - Nov. 26 (Opinion) - Farmers in ...
New York Times - By Andrew Rice - Nov. 22 (Special Report) - Fearing ...