Browsing: agriculture
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…
Kenya launched a fertilizer subsidy in 2008 and now farmers say the soil is dying and chemical fertilizers that make the land acidic are to blame
When Benson Wanjala started farming in his western Kenya village two and a half decades ago, his 10-acre farm could…
Earlier this month, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis declared a disaster emergency not for the wildfires common to the Centennial State…
Florida farmers turn to an ancient tree from India as the state’s once-famous citrus industry dries up
An ancient tree from India is now thriving in groves where citrus trees once flourished in Florida, and could help…
Fast-food breakfast sandwich loyalists be warned: It might be best not to put all your eggs in one basket. McDonald’s…
U.S. government will pay Moderna $176 million to develop a bird flu vaccine to stave off dairy cow epidemic
The U.S. government will pay the vaccine maker Moderna $176 million to develop a pandemic vaccine that could be used…
Butter prices jump to all-time high as more dairy producers shift to cheese while bird flu keeps U.S. output tight
Butter has never been this expensive as a limited world supply has buyers scrambling before the holiday baking season later…
Denmark is set to become the first country to hold bovines accountable for their carbon footprint. Following an agreement earlier…
U.S. suspended avocado inspections in Mexico’s biggest exporter of the fruit because 2 inspectors were assaulted and held captive
Two employees of the U.S. Agriculture Department were assaulted and temporarily held by assailants in the Mexican state of Michoacan,…












