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Agriculture officials will be surveying farmers to determine if expected yields met expectations this year.
Six candidates running for governor agreed Friday that agribusiness is crucial to South Carolina but each told an audience of farm and business leaders he has the best vision for the $34 billion industry.
James Byrum has resigned from the Michigan Commission of Agriculture.
The world can make huge strides in reducing hunger and poverty by helping the world's poorest farmers become more productive, Microsoft Inc. co-founder Bill Gates said Thursday.
Greater investment, innovation and improved public-private partnerships are needed to meet the world's growing demand for food, business and government leaders said at the World Food Prize symposium.
A U.N. agency warns that the climate change will badly affect agriculture and hit developing nations hardest, leading to unreliable food production and higher prices.
Cuba on Monday acknowledged a failure to pay cash-strapped farmers on time and said some local officials lied to cover up the problem — a blunt admission from the communist government that crucial agriculture reforms lauded by President Raul Castro have so far fallen short.
Sen. Blanche Lincoln will become the first woman to head the Senate agriculture committee under leadership changes made because of Ted Kennedy's death.
The farm lobby is using President Barack Obama's easing of some travel restrictions to Cuba as an opportunity to push for increased sales of rice, meat, vegetables and other goods to the island nation.
Educators and agriculture advocates in Ohio and other farm belt states say budget proposals would cut funding at many university-based extension programs, even as the grim economy prompts more and more penny-pinching residents to seek out their advice on gardening, canning and do-it-yourself repair projects.
Big farms that receive large government subsidies would lose some of that money under President Barack Obama's budget.
First lady Michelle Obama on Thursday added a White House touch to a garden being planted at a federal agency near the National Mall.
President-elect Barack Obama's nominee for secretary of agriculture said Wednesday that if he is confirmed he will work to boost the economies of farm communities, promote nutritious foods and help poor families put meals on the table.
Her boots, jeans and sweat shirt splattered with mud, Janet Lagow Lewis stretched barbed wire across metal posts, rebuilding a portion of her 38 miles of fencing that Hurricane Ike washed away.
Until the end of March, Barack Obama's pick for agriculture secretary was registered to lobby for the country's largest teacher union, whose issues include nutrition programs overseen by the Agriculture Department.
Nadir Bahktar's stall at a northern Afghanistan agriculture fair had the faint smell of Christmas.
Asset prices plunge and a panic sweeps through international markets. The crisis threatens the livelihood and savings of millions of Americans. Congress enacts sweeping government intervention, putting aside faith in free markets to heal themselves.
There is new trouble at the ranch. The worsening financial crisis is making it harder and more expensive for farmers and cattlemen to borrow money to pay for feed, land and salaries. While the credit squeeze on the agricultural sector is buffered somewhat by subsidies and other federal assistance, the timing is nonetheless bad: the costs of fertilizer, fuel, seed and equipment have all risen sharply in recent years, and a global recession is on the horizon.
Like any farmer, Iowa Agriculture Secretary Bill Northey is eager to put the pains — and the rains — of 2008 behind him.
From Texas rice farms to Midwest cornfields, some farmers in the path of Hurricane Ike's remnants saw profits sink as strong winds battered crops.
Hurricane Gustav caused an estimated $372 million in damage to Louisiana crops, flattening fields and dumping as many as 20 inches of rain, agriculture officials said Tuesday.
Hurricane Dolly probably doomed South Texas's cotton and sorghum crops already damaged by heavy rains earlier in the summer. But analysts said the loss, while devastating for local producers, will have only a short-term effect on the markets.
More than half of Cuba's agricultural land is idle or underutilized, prompting a series of government reforms intended to dramatically boost farm production, government statistics released last week show.
The U.S. agriculture secretary says he is concerned that legal hurdles prevented much immediate federal help for Midwestern farmers faced with serious setbacks because of flooding.
Long after the waters subside, the floods that submerged the Midwest this month could turn out to be the region’s biggest economic disaster in decades, with ramifications that will be felt by consumers across the country.
UN official decries lack of bailout for hungry - thestar.comROME–The director of a UN food agency questions how world powers could commit so much money to fighting the financial crisis and not to feeding the 1 billion hungry.
PBS Newshour: Hunger in America (With Video)One in seven American households had a hard time putting enough food on the table last year, that from a new report released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture -- 14.6 percent of U.S.
Experts: GHG pollution 50% greater than thought, livestock give over 51% of GHGs pa World Bank Group environmentalists have re-examined greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution due to methanogenic livestock - total GHG pollution is 50% greater than thought previously and livestock contribute over 51% of total.
Why Women's Rights Matter To Our FoodThat's right: women grow more than half of the world's food and the lion's share (as much as 80 percent) of the food in developing countries, reports the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Nicaragua Builds An Innovative Agricultural Information System Using Open Source SoftwareThe second poorest country of the Americas now has one of the best software solutions for displaying agricultural data in the western hemisphere.
'Win It' Wednesday: Jonathan Safran Foer's 'Eating Animals'This book is a break-through in outlining an important animal welfare issue, but is also presented in a non-pedantic and almost whimsical way (and is non-preachy to boot) If you missed him on Stewart's "Daily Show" please look it up, as he is a real match for Stewart and was equ …
Will foreign farmers feed Africans?For centuries, farmers like Berhanu Gudina have eked out a living in Ethiopia's central lowlands, tending tiny plots of maize, wheat or barley amid the vastness of the lush green plains.
Apple that stays fresh for months developed by Australian scientists - TelegraphResearchers have spent the last 20 years developing the fruit, which they have now dubbed "the world's best apple." The apple – at this stage known as RS103-130 – stays "crispy" for 14 days in a fruit bowl, but if kept in a fridge will remain fresh for "months on end".
Somehow, while the Republicans were on duty, the Stock Market took control of the power of our Congress. Both the House and the Senate. The Stock Market is now making our laws.
Rethinking the Luddites Martin Ford ponders the issue of technology-induced long-term structural unemployment:
When Child Labor Laws Don't Necessarily Help ChildrenWhen ABC broadcast an exposé on child labor in agriculture and specifically focused on the Adkin Blue Ribbon Packing Company, the reaction was both predictable and inevitable.
Researchers to perform sex change operation on papayaThe complicated sex life of the papaya is about to get even more interesting, thanks to a $3.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
The Stories (and money) Behind 10 of Your Favorite Organic and Natural FoodsA nice little list with links and commentary on ownership and products for the major organic food brands. Organics have always been big money, even in a recession. This attracts well-capitalized companies who want to invest, and who can blame them?
Growing Doritos: Where they grow our junk foodSo to get to the root of the exploding obesity epidemic, I went in search of a junk food farm. Such farms are not so easy to spot. No fields of Dorito bags waving in the breeze, no orchards blooming with soda pop, no soil bursting with 99-cent burgers.
Child Labor: Young Children Working in Blueberry Fields, Some Retailers Sever Ties to Large GrowerSome store chains have stopped buying blueberries from a major company due to its use of child labor. Apparently child labor is used commonly in the fields by various companies.
The Other Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis in Global Land Use As the international community focuses on climate change as the great challenge of our era, it is ignoring another looming problem — the global crisis in land use.
Water-demanding farms looked at as resources vanishAlong its final miles, the Colorado River snakes through a dizzying series of dams, canals, siphons and ditches, diverted to hundreds of users in Arizona and California until barely a trickle remains. What flows through this watery Grand Central Station could fill the needs of a …
Alexander the Great: not first at Alexandria?Alexander the Great has long been credited with being the first to settle the area along Egypt's coast that became the great port city of Alexandria. But in recent years, evidence has been mounting that other groups of people were there first.
Cap and Trade: A $3.6 Trillion Gas Taxthere's a $3.6 trillion gas tax on the table that already passed the House and is making its way through the Senate, and cap and trade has Americans all over the country concerned.
Organic Farming Can Cool the World that Chemical Farming OverheatedA report from GRAIN discusses how agriculture can put back much of the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere into the soil.
Thermometer For The EarthAccording to climate change experts, our planet has a fever — melting glaciers are just one stark sign of the radical changes we can expect. But global warming's effects on farming and water resources is still a mystery.
I pulled in my driveway a few nights ago to see one of those little yard service warning flags stuck in my yard. My initial reaction was someone had stuck it there thinking that's where it belonged. However, I've not put any chemicals on my lawn in over 7 years.
Bill Gates calls for new green revolution in agricultureMore than 50 years ago, U.S.
Environment NGOs Hate Developing CountryFor a developing country, they only have their land to capitalize on improving the livelihood of their people. Despite this, some environmentalists hated the idea.
Global Warming Wars: Water will become more precious than OilWater will become more valuable than oil in just a few decades and water scarcity will likely replace oil as the commodity future wars will be fought over.
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