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The Wilton Wind Energy Center north of Bismarck, N.D., has doubled in size.
Researchers recently found an insect in north Georgia that has never before been reported in the Western Hemisphere — and its arrival could be both a blessing and a curse.
Tristesse Jones will probably never drive a tractor or guide a combine through rows of soybeans at harvest time.
Sunflower crops could set records in the nation's top two producing states this year, helping to blunt a drop in nationwide production and ensure a healthy supply for processors in the United States and Canada.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City says lower income contributed to a weaker farm economy during the third quarter in some Midwest and Western states.
Tropical Storm Ida may not have done much damage when it hit the Gulf Coast this week, but its wind and rain compounded the misery for Southern farmers already coping with a wet, difficult harvest season.
Newly released estimates for U.S. wheat, corn and soybean crops may put to rest fears that a wet harvest season in many parts of the country could cut into production.
The Hawaii Farm Bureau Foundation and Aloha Air Cargo have formed a new partnership that they say "champions local farmers."
When Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was promoting a complex legislative package to rebuild California's water system, he often appeared alongside farmers who were unable to cultivate their land amid a third year of drought and federal pumping restrictions.
A broken pelvis and injured knee nearly put an end to North Dakota farmer Dustin Lien's harvest, but a group that helps injured farmers and the families of those who have died came to his aid.
Hartwell Huddleston returned the extra combine he bought to help harvest what looked to be one of his best soybean crops ever.
Here's a look at the states where the most land is being released from the federal Conservation Reserve Program:
Surveying undulating grasslands that disappear into the western Kansas horizon, retired farmer Joe Govert pointed out parcel after parcel no longer enrolled in a federal program that pays property owners not to farm environmentally sensitive land.
A Vermont slaughterhouse ordered closed Friday after video showed calves kicked, shocked and cut while conscious had its operating license suspended three times earlier this year for similar conduct.
WIMER, Ore. — Vern and Gianaclis Caldwell do a lot of the typical things that make a small farm self-sufficient.
For more than a century, small green beetles ate through U.S. cotton crops, costing growers $20 billion and making the boll weevil the most expensive agricultural pest in the nation's history.
After years of tilling away in obscurity, Will Allen has found sudden fame as the face of the urban farming movement.
Ohio voters will decide next week whether to create a board overseeing livestock care in a move that could give farmers in rural America a blueprint for battling animal rights groups intent on outlawing cramped cages for chickens and hogs.
After burning through $1 million in savings and seeing no end to their losses, dairy farmers Jake and Lori Slegers figured they didn't have much choice — they had to kill the cows.
Six years ago, Precept Brands chose not to compete with companies making big-bucks wines, instead seeing opportunity in the under-$10-a-bottle market.
Trucks that could be hauling livestock along the Kansas and Oklahoma border were detained and their drivers questioned Thursday, during a drill aimed at protecting the nation's food supply from foot-and-mouth disease.
In their straw hats, rolled up sleeves and work boots, a dozen or so Latinos gathered by a field of ripening strawberries still look like farmers. All but one of them, however, have lost their land.
More than 150 years after Virginia's last native elk was killed, game officials may try to populate the state's southwest corner with its bigger, buff-colored cousin — the Rocky Mountain elk.
COLUMBIA, Tenn. - A man who allegedly videotaped a friend having sex with a horse at a farm in Washington state in 2005 is now accused of performing sex acts with a horse in Tennessee.
Shortly before my mother married my stepfather in 1957, they bought our farm. By the time they were married, the farm was ready for all of us to move into. Not long after we moved in, we acquired two terrier puppies.
Three Year Old Monkey Mani Shepherds 100 Goats An inured monkey that made it into a farmhouse bleeding all over is now a major attraction in Palakkad, Kerala. The monkey was named 'Mani' by the farmhouse employees and brought back to good health.
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.
SWAT raid on food storehouse heading to trial"A lawsuit brought by an Ohio family whose children were held at SWAT-team gunpoint while their food supplies were confiscated is scheduled to go to trial this week.
Girl, 13, Wins Ploughing Contest"A 13-year-old school girl has beaten experienced farmers to first place in a ploughing competition."
One tonne of fish dead after dairy farmer protestDairy farmers who dumped truckloads of milk in protest of EU policies last week in Saxony-Anhalt are now under investigation after more than a tonne of fish died in a nearby pond over the weekend, a police spokesperson told The Local on Monday.
Twin two-year-old boys victims of E.coli outbreak - up to 50,000 children may be affectedTwin two-year-old boys with suspected kidney failure are among dozens of victims of a growing E.coli outbreak which started at a petting farm. Both the children are on dialysis and one has undergone a blood transfusion as concern mounts over the scale of the infection.
Area farmers react to USDA's prediction of drastic drop in farm income A drop in agriculture prices is expected to send farmers' income plummeting. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is predicting net farm income to drop 38 percent nationwide, or $33.2 billion.
Farm Dog Saves Baby Pig By Adopting It as One of Its OwnA dog is caring for a piglet at a farm in Hoerstel, Germany according to this Daily Mail article.
Boys Provide Garden-to-door ServiceTwo Lexington, Kentucky brothers do gardening and sell their produce to neighborhood residents via a wagon.
Fatal Sunshine: The Plight of California's Farm WorkersThe bountiful harvest of California strawberries, melons, grapes, peaches and nectarines overflows the nation's summer tables.
Man rescues baby moose, state of Vermont says it must dieDavid Lawrence rescued a baby moose after a dog attack, nursed the animal back to health and found a 600 acre farm for the moose to live on, but state wildlife officials point out that it is illegal to keep a wild animal and demand the animal be killed.
Gopher Bombs Start Brush Fire - Planet Santa Barbara - Local NewsA 79 year old man lit gopher bombs on his ranch in an attempt to kill gophers that had plagued his property. Unfortunately his alleged failure to follow precautions in working on the gopher bombs resulted in a one acre fire in Santa Ynez. Capt.
There is nothing like new life on the farm! On Father's Day, my husband and I were blessed with the birth of a baby colt named Rain. He is the most beautiful paint colt I have ever seen! Jo, our photographer daughter, took lots of pictures of Hannah (the mama) and Rain.
Monsanto - "inert" chemicals not cancerous... but they do kill embryotic and umbilical cord tissueOne specific inert ingredient, polyethoxylated tallowamine, or POEA, was more deadly to human embryonic, placental and umbilical cord cells than the herbicide itself - a finding the researchers call "astonishing."
Doe! Deer Rescuer Threatened With Criminal ChargesAfter being rescued, Sunny the fawn faces euthanasia, while Sunny's rescuer is threatened with jail time.
Air force compensates farmer for hen massacreThe Swedish armed forces has agreed to compensate a poultry farmer in northern Sweden after an air force exercise caused the death of 31 chickens.
Bulls explode after power lines collapseSeven bulls exploded and caught fire after power lines fell on a dairy farm in New Zealand. The incident happened north of Auckland at Wilks Road farm.
Preserving Time in a Bottle (or a Jar)FOR Eugenia Bone, opening the kitchen cupboard in her SoHo apartment is like dipping into a favorite TV show.
Erotic Farm Calendar, too Big for SwitzerlandFarm girls in Switzerland have long been baring their bodices for an annual erotic calendar. They have recently been joined by their farm boy counterparts. Now, the publisher behind the project is looking to expand abroad.
Many Summer Internships Are Going Organic , Try something new or differentErin Axelrod, who graduated from Barnard College last week with an urban studies degree, will not be fighting over the bathroom with her five roommates on the Upper West Side this summer.
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