Indigenous Mexicans make up nearly a quarter of the farmhands who pick the apples, cherries and other crops in western Washington, a new survey has found.

Extra olives with your martini? Bartenders soon may think twice about that, with table olive prices expected to go up as California growers face their second-lightest harvest in more than a...

Everett Dobrinski recently got a $4,000 check for storing carbon dioxide in his soil.

Farm equipment maker Deere says its third-quarter earnings rose 7 percent as continuing growth in the global agricultural sector boosted results, but profit missed Wall Street...

Army National Guard soldiers from farm states are hoping to fight terrorism and grow Afghanistan’s farm economy, one legitimate crop at a time.

Southern sugar farmers, struggling with rising fuel and production costs, say the federal government’s decision to allow more foreign sugar into the United States to ensure adequate supplies is premature and could depress their...

Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood said Wednesday that his office has settled its dispute with State Farm Insurance Cos. over how the insurer handled Hurricane Katrina damage claims in...

More than 40 million pounds of pesticides and herbicides were used in Oregon’s farms, forests and fields last year, with potato fields getting the biggest dose, according to the state’s first tabulation of chemical...

Major farm policies advanced by presidential rivals John McCain and Barack Obama:

Republican presidential candidate John McCain opposes the $300 billion farm bill and subsidies for ethanol, positions that both supporters and opponents say might cost him votes he needs in the upper Midwest this...