
Nov 5 - By Becky Bohrer, Associated Press Writer
Hartwell Huddleston returned the extra combine he bought to help harvest what looked to be one of his best soybean crops ever. Complete Story...
Nov 4 - By The Associated Press, Only on msnbc.com
Here's a look at the states where the most land is being released from the federal Conservation Reserve Program:

Nov 4 - By Roxana Hegeman, Associated Press Writer
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.
Nov 3 - By Dave Gram, Associated Press Writer
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.

Nov 2 - By Jeff Barnard, AP Environmental Writer
WIMER, Ore. — Vern and Gianaclis Caldwell do a lot of the typical things that make a small farm self-sufficient.

Oct 30 - By Betsy Blaney, Associated Press Writer
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.

Oct 29 - By Dinesh Ramde, Associated Press Writer
After years of tilling away in obscurity, Will Allen has found sudden fame as the face of the urban farming movement.

Oct 28 - By John Seewer, Associated Press Writers
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.
Oct 27 - By Michael J. Crumb, Associated Press Writer
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.

Oct 26 - By Shannon Dininny, Associated Press Writer
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.
Oct 23 - By John Milburn, Associated Press Writer
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.

Oct 22 - By Juliana Barbassa, Associated Press Writer
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.

Oct 21 - By Steve Szkotak, Associated Press Writer
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.
Oct 20 - By Associated Press
Oregon has been accredited to certify farms under the National Organic Program, which sets standards for farms and other operations that market agricultural products as organically produced.
Oct 19 - By John Miller, Associated Press Writer
A federal judge has ordered a western Idaho rancher to keep his sheep off his family's traditional grazing ground on public land to protect wild native bighorns. Federal land managers on Monday opted not to fight the ruling.

Oct 18 - By Janie McCauley, AP Sports Writer
Michael Vick heard it all in his first road game, from supporters to animal rights activists and protesters eager to boo him. Or bark at him for that matter.

Oct 16 - By Tracie Cone, Associated Press Writer
Farmers in the most prolific agricultural region in the country should be planting winter romaine lettuce and calculating spring cantaloupe acreage at this time of year.
Oct 15 - By Michael J. Crumb, Associated Press Writer
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.
Oct 14 - By James MacPherson, Associated Press Writer
A 51-year-old grandfather who grows garbanzo beans and other crops in northwestern North Dakota was among the protesters arrested for planting hemp seeds on the lawn of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration offices.
Oct 13 - By Associated Press
A Kentucky lawmaker has introduced legislation to legalize industrial hemp as a cash crop and a source for alternative fuels.
Oct 12 - By Becky Bohrer, Associated Press Writer
Pecan production is expected to reach 309 million pounds this year, up nearly 60 percent from last year's 193.9 million pounds, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Oct 10 - By Ronald Blum, AP Baseball Writer
The crowd started trickling in at 2:30 p.m. — a full 5 1/2 hours before kickoff — and by 5 p.m. the pastel-colored seats of Estadio Olimpico Metropolitano were nearly full, separated from the field by tall barbed wire.

Oct 9 - By Blake Nicholson, Associated Press Writer
Producers of hard red spring wheat in the upper Midwest have reaped one of the biggest harvests in history, but the bin-busting crop isn't of high enough quality to pay the bills for many farmers.

Oct 8 - By Jacob Adelman, Associated Press Writer
Tom Mulholland is girding for battle against a tiny enemy that could devastate the orange grove he has spent his life cultivating. His adversary: the Asian citrus psyllid, a fruit-fly-sized insect with red eyes and a long, leaf-penetrating beak.

Oct 7 - By Shannon Dininny, Associated Press Writer
Margarito Martinez says he was fired from the eastern Washington dairy that employed him for more than a year because he tried to unionize the company. Nine co-workers say they also were let go for affiliations with the budding union.