Agriculture News

Ten million people risk going hungry in Kenya after harvests failed because of drought, the government said Friday.

Is it trespassing when bees do what bees do in California's tangerine groves? That is the question being weighed by state agriculture officials caught between beekeepers who prize orange blossom honey and ...

Rapidly warming climate is likely to seriously alter crop yields in the tropics and subtropics by the end of this century and, without adaptation, will leave half the world's population facing serious food ...

MANILA, Philippines A drop in oil and fertilizer costs has halved the price of rice - a staple for almost 700 million of Asia's poorest - but it could jump again this year as farmers struggle to secure loans ...

The secretary general of the Department of Agriculture has insisted that the Government's decision to withdraw all Irish pork and bacon products late last year was the correct one.

State agricultural officials have quarantined 17 horses on Wisconsin farms after they were exposed to an equine venereal disease that was confirmed last month in a quarter horse stallion in Kentucky.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is asking Virginia farmers to help it figure out ways to conserve water and improve irrigation systems.

State agriculture officials have quarantined 17 horses on 11 farms around Wisconsin after they were exposed to an equine venereal disease.

Federal wildlife officials are taking applications from farmers who want the government to remove cattail-infested wetlands, the preferred habitat of sunflower-snacking blackbirds.

Phil Mastrangelo, the state director for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Wildlife Services agency, said applications will be accepted from Wednesday until June.

More than 60,000 acres of cattail marshes in North Dakota have been destroyed since 1991, to try to keep blackbirds from attacking sunflower fields, he said.

Damage estimates to Oregon's nursery stock industry from late December storms suffered by 160 growers in 12 counties range from $18 to $31 million in a survey conducted by the Oregon Association of Nurseries.

An outbreak of salmonella food poisoning has made 388 people sick across 42 states, sending 18 percent of them to the hospital, U.S. health officials said on Wednesday.

Each passing day seems to drop a fresh dose of bad news on the economy. The Dow Jones industrial average saw yet another decline Monday.

VIETNAM'S agriculture ministry has confirmed an outbreak of bird flu among poultry in the northern province of Thanh Hoa, where a girl was hospitalised with the deadly disease last week.

Chinese agriculture officials have issued an alert against bird flu after a 19-year-old woman died of the disease in Beijing, Xinhua news agency reported today.

EXPERTS from three UN agencies have arrived in the Philippines to investigate an outbreak of the Ebola-Reston virus at two pig farms north of Manila, the World Health Organisation said on Wednesday.

Gold prices fell Monday, undermined by the dollar's advance on hopes for an economic stimulus package in the U.S. Meanwhile, energy and agriculture futures rose.

International agriculture researchers and donors announced a plan Tuesday to substantially boost crop yields in South Asia and help farmers increase their income to avoid a repeat of last year's food crisis.

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Farmers have welcomed assurances that the Scottish Government will back direct cash support for agriculture.

HELENA, Mont. - Plum Creek Timber Co. said Monday it no longer wants to pursue changes in long-standing agreements that govern its use of U.S. Forest Service roads near company lands, changes criticized by ...