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Federal immigration officials are cracking down on Vermont dairy farmers as part of a national effort, asking them to provide records to prove their workers are legal.
The Kansas Supreme Court ruled Friday that Wabaunsee County commissioners have the right to prohibit the construction of commercial wind farms in their county.
Federal authorities in California announced charges Thursday against 18 people they said operated a lucrative marijuana-growing operation by converting Central Valley homes into high-tech pot nurseries.
Several New England states are urging consumers to chip in and save the region's dwindling dairy farms, which are struggling with record-low milk prices.
Short on space but big on taste? Why not grow your own local, sustainable food against a city skyline? GreenDAY’s Marisa Belger highlights a popular new trend that has urbanites reaching new heights in gardening.
A multiparty fact-finding delegation got a chilly reception Friday as it toured Zimbabwean farms seized from whites by supporters of President Robert Mugabe.
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 good times are largely over.
For more than 70 years, California's abundance of sunshine has enabled the Lundberg family to grow rice in the Central Valley north of Sacramento.
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.
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 foot of mud.
American agriculture must move away from its focus on large, industrial farms to reverse environmental and human health problems, a private commission reported Tuesday.
Communist Cuba is opening up unused land to private farmers and cooperatives as part of a sweeping effort to step up agricultural production.
Homemade cow and goat cheese from Twin Oaks Farm and Creamery has been a staple at the Olympia Farmers market for three years.
Researchers have new evidence that as the density of salmon farms increases, they can drive nearby wild salmon runs to extinction. The problem is sea lice, a natural parasite that normally attaches to adult salmon with little ill effect and has little contact with vulnerable juvenile salmon. All that changes, however, when fish farms move in.
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 be sandy, it can be pebbly, and it doesn't hold water very well.
After years of resistance, a growing number of Amish families are putting their farms into land preservation programs.
At Rutgers University's animal farm, where future veterinarians train, male piglets are pulled squealing from their mother to be castrated — without anesthesia — before they are 10 days old.
Wind farms could generate up to 7 percent of U.S. electricity in 15 years, but scientists want more study of the threat the spinning blades pose to birds and bats.
Leon Nunn stepped out his front door one recent afternoon only to be waved back by a squadron of drug agents using a battering ram on a neighbor's home. The half-million-dollar home in the quiet subdivision was found to be stuffed with high-grade marijuana plants, growing in soil-free trays under bright lights.
I grew up in Southwestern Lower Michigan near Lake Michigan. Every winter we topped the most snowfall list for the lower peninsula, mostly because of lake effect snow. Like most people who live in snow country I have and had a love/hate relationship with the damned stuff.
My View: Steinberg's water deal betrays his constituents State Sen. Darrell Steinberg's quiet reshuffling of 150 years of California water policy to bail out Southern California developers and giant agricultural interests to the south threatens the future of this region.
California lawmakers pass historic water package - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento BeeSACRAMENTO, Calif.
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.
U.S. Senate's failed water amendment roils California alliances WASHINGTON – A Central Valley water amendment that failed Tuesday night in the Senate nonetheless succeeded in driving a wedge between Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein and some key California farmers....
Police net 45,000 marijuana plants in sweet cornA string of police raids across Limburg since last Friday have led to the discovery of 45,000 marijuana plants growing among sweetcorn. In total, seven large and 87 small plantations were found after police flew over the region in a helicopter. The biggest had 15,000 plants.
State cuts imperil program to preserve farmland-Growers who get property tax breaks under the Williamson Act might have to sell land to defray costs if counties pull out of the program in the absence of state funding.Reporting from Visalia, Calif.
For Sierra Valley ranchers, help to resist developers tougher to find LOYALTON – Dave Goicoechea often tells people he's "just a farmer."
San Joaquin County agriculture exhibit stars "The Terminator" Bruce Blodgett knew he wanted to do something to shake things up – and make a point.
Don't Exhale: EPA Expected to Declare Carbon Dioxide a Dangerous Pollutant Don't exhale.
Why Not Start AgriCorps, for a New Crop of Farmers?When the Agriculture Department released its 2007 census recently, the news appeared surprisingly good: For the first time since World War II, the United States did not lose farms, it gained them — 75,810, to be exact, for a total of 2.2 million.
Is Congress Killing The Organic Farm?Two bills designed to stop outbreaks of food-borne illnesses could mean big trouble for small farms. H.R. 759 is currently in the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, while some of the wording in H.R. 875 is being reworked to clarify the bill's intention. By Robynne Boyd
Organic Farms as Subdivision Amenities SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. — The bewildered Iowan who converted his farm into a ballpark in "Field of Dreams" in 1989 might reverse the move today. From Vermont to central California, developers are creating subdivisions around organic farms to attract buyers.
State's olive oil production takes off Olive oil has the grape harvester to thank for its status as one of the fastest growing industries in California, growing by 50 percent this year alone.
HR 2749: Totalitarian Control of the Food SupplyA new food safety bill is on the fast track in Congress-HR 2749, the Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009. The bill needs to be stopped.
What a sad world if you couldn't be kissed by a butterflyAlthough I'm not much of a fan of the Luftwaffe, I must say they did an awful lot to help me fall in love with butterflies. When I was a boy in London during the war, I used to love larking around on the bombsites.
Foodie, Beware Is your farmers market just a grocery store with a taco stand and a didgeridoo?
Zimbabwean prime minister's wife dies in crashThe prime minister of Zimbabwe, Morgan Tsvangirai, was hurt and his wife, Susan, fatally injured on Friday in a car crash about 45 miles south of the capital, according to officials of Tsvangirai's political party, the Movement for Democratic Change
US Rejects Early Lifting of Zimbabwe SanctionsThe United States and European allies began imposing travel and financial sanctions in 2003 targeted at individuals and companies with close links to the autocratic president, who has led Zimbabwe since its independence from Britain in 1980
Mugabe will seize white owned farmsCHINHOYI, Zimbabwe (AFP) — Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe vowed Saturday to press on with seizures of white-owned farms, even as he urged followers at his lavish birthday bash to respect the new unity government.
Farm subsidy cuts to affect large farms: Vilsack WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cuts to U.S. farm payments will be directed at farmers and ranchers with large incomes and big sales, and could affect 3 percent of farmers in the United States, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said on Thursday
N.J. farm acreage is down 9 percent, survey showsThere are more farms in New Jersey than 40 years ago, but a U.S. Agriculture Department census found Garden State farmers have less land to work. The department's 2007 census shows state farm acreage has dropped 9 percent to 733,450 acres in 2007 from 805,682 acres in 2002.
So you think your "British" pork is "British"? Think again.Even through the inky blackness of the winter night air, it is clear that this is no ordinary farm. Visible from several miles away, it is awash with the glow of high-intensity floodlights and seems to hover menacingly above the frozen fields of Eastern Poland.
Manure digesters help address the environmental scourge of animal wasteThe digester on the Crave farm is a huge stainless steel above-ground heated tank that uses bacteria to change manure from the farm's 1,000 cows into methane gas that produces enough electricity to power 400 homes; it also produces bedding for cows and fiber for potting mix.
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