Browsing: agriculture
Despite the world’s ability to produce enough food for everyone, hunger remains a significant issue. Every year on October 16,…
A crop scientist who grew up in Nigeria is working with hundreds of researchers and thousands of farmers to improve…
Russian Agriculture Minister Oksana Lut urged people to go to church and pray for rain as the persistent lack of…
Taking a late-summer country drive in the Midwest means venturing into the corn zone, snaking between 12-foot-tall green, leafy walls…
Barb Boustead remembers learning about corn sweat when she moved to Nebraska about 20 years ago to work for the…
Mississippi seafood giant sold thousands of pounds of imported frozen fish and billed it as fresh caught local snapper
A Mississippi seafood distributor and two managers pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring to mislabel seafood and commit wire fraud by…
Growing mangoes in Greece is the latest bizarre climate change experiment as droughts become the norm
Stirring the leaves of a shrub on his farm in Kyparissia, western Greece, Panos Adamopoulos spied the first soon-to-be-ripe mangoes…
Mexican farm worker Avelino Vazquez Navarro didn’t have air conditioning in the motor home where he died last month in…
Black and minority farmers get $2 billion in payments after USDA acknowledges years of discrimination
The Biden administration has doled out more than $2 billion in direct payments for Black and other minority farmers discriminated against by…
Food security comes with a steep price: the strongest associations between pesticides and cancer was for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, leukaemia, and…