On 12th May, U.S Agriculture Department announced that $50 million is now available to the farmers who wanted to go with organic farming over old conventional farming...

This morning I received an article written by a member of Zimbabwe’s ‘inclusive government’ in which he discusses the cost of the land grab in Zimbabwe – and...

Farmers in California’s drought-stricken agricultural basin finally will get a meager supply of federal water to nurture their crops this summer.

The Agriculture Department plans to review more than 14,000 civil rights complaints that have been filed against the agency since 2000.

As a senator, Barack Obama led the charge last year to pass a bill allowing black farmers to seek new discrimination claims against the Agriculture Department. Now he...

Farmers lined up on both sides of a Montana bill dealing with how biotech companies sample crops to determine potential illegal use of patented seeds.

North Dakota Agriculture Commissioner Roger Johnson has been elected president of the National Farmers Union _ the first North Dakotan to lead the organization.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California are talking to farmers from around the country Monday amid debate over meat...

Plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit against the Agriculture Department say the government’s own data show that American Indian farmers lost hundreds of millions...

North Dakota Agriculture Commissioner Roger Johnson says he will seek the presidency of the National Farmers Union and will resign from his elected state position if he...

Farmers in earthquake-devastated southwest China beat a village chief and clashed with police this week after they claimed they were cheated out of quake relief...

Riot police fired tear gas at farmers from the southern island of Crete Monday to prevent them from driving their tractors from the Greek port of Piraeus to the capital...

Swiss police said Thursday they stumbled across a large marijuana plantation while using Google Earth, the search engine company’s satellite mapping software.

Swiss police said Thursday they stumbled across a large marijuana plantation while using Google Earth, the search engine company’s satellite mapping software.

Mike Robinson’s family has been tilling land in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta since the 1880s, growing crops in some of California’s most fertile soil.

President Cristina Fernandez is promising Argentine farmers subsidized fertilizer and low interest loans for farm machinery as the world economic crisis slashes crop...

Farmers who rent animals for Nativity scenes say business is holding steady, although some organizers are swapping camels for cheaper livestock amid the recession....

Yesterday workers at the Pak ‘n Save supermarket on Lincoln Road in Auckland held a picket as part of their campaign to get an improved employment agreement. The site...

Eco Factor: Tractor powered by photovoltaic panels. Austria-based Open Energy has stated that the company will be launching a tractor completely powered by the energy...

A southern African regional court ruled Friday that 78 white Zimbabweans could keep their farms, saying the government’s land grab policy was racially motivated.