A multiparty fact-finding delegation got a chilly reception Friday as it toured Zimbabwean farms seized from whites by supporters of President Robert Mugabe.

Italian police on Tuesday arrested mobsters, businessmen and local politicians who allegedly used corrupt practices and bribes to gain control of a project to build...

Wisconsin farmers benefited from skyrocketing grain and milk prices, seeing profits nearly double from 2002 to 2007, according to the new agricultural census. But the...

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...

Farms and orchards that continue to use three pesticides that harm salmon will have to greatly expand buffer zones around their fields so the chemicals don’t...

Just two weeks ago it was drought that was causing many Illinois farmers some sleepless nights.

Hussein Ibrahim walked solemnly past tidy rows of bright green cabbages, vines bursting with tomatoes and trees weighed down with plump avocados.This modern, thriving...

A half-century ago, Vince Bedient spent his days chopping down trees for his father’s sawmill, stealing time during harvest to haul farmers’ grapes to a...

Flats of broccoli, cabbage and onions are ready for planting at Boistfort Valley Farm, where just five months ago, much of Mike Peroni’s farm was buried under a...

American agriculture must move away from its focus on large, industrial farms to reverse environmental and human health problems, a private commission reported...

Pioneer Hi-Bred International, a division of DuPont Co., bought a stake in an online marketing service that connects farmers with grain buyers, the companies said.Farms...

Communist Cuba is opening up unused land to private farmers and cooperatives as part of a sweeping effort to step up agricultural production.Government television says...

At age 77, Arlen Schwinke might be getting too old for the twice-a-day milkings that come with working a dairy farm, but he’s still deeply committed to...

The more salmon that growers pack into farms near rivers and streams, the greater the harm done to wild salmon populations, new research suggests.The problem is sea...

Southwest Georgia is one of the most productive agricultural regions in Dixie, but you wouldn’t know it from the soil under the corn, peanuts and cotton. It can...

After years of resistance, a growing number of Amish families are putting their farms into land preservation programs.While Amish farmers traditionally spurn government...

At Rutgers University’s animal farm, where future veterinarians train, male piglets are pulled squealing from their mother to be castrated _ without anesthesia _...

Grow the food you want to eat in your lawn. The concept of edible estates is to utilize personal lawns to grow organic food. The idea is to use any unused land to grow...

I am a winner today. A proud winner despite no competition thrown from those within the radius of my colleagues but it is a victory over the factors that are...

The Manchester United captain Gary Neville has taken up a property and around 200 builders are racing to complete the Neville-Neville Land. The footballer’s...