Agriculture

"You know, the trade deal, I trust him to do the right thing for everybody," Randy Sowers said.

The campaign against undocumented laborers escalated to its most severe crackdown in over a decade when federal agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raided five poultry processing facilities in Mississippi last week.

Chistopher Gribbs from Ohio said that soybean prices have taken a big hit due to Trump's trade war with China.

People eat as much as they can afford despite it killing the planet—the "meat paradox."

"The environment is currently one of the major battlefields over the shape of the global economy, on a par with armed conflicts and calls for urgent and immediate action," one expert told Newsweek.

Scientists have identified genetically inherited gut microbes that regulate how much methane a cow produces.

A comprehensive climate policy could create new livelihoods for rural Americans and farmers suffering under Trump administration policies.

"Such temporary solutions are not sufficient to address the permanent damage the trade war has inflicted on agricultural export markets."

The president is escalating his trade war with China and says he will raise tariffs, but farmers under pressure are voicing concerns, according to Republican senators.

In an ideal world, farmers would not need to use chemicals to produce our food and fiber, but that is not the reality we have to live with.

Harvesting urine would mean India could become more independent from imports of urea, Minister Nitin Gadkari said.

If the U.S. tries to shoehorn new breakthroughs into old regulatory framework, innovation will emigrate.

An estimated 10 percent of the global population was wiped out.

The duel for economic superiority between Beijing and Washington D.C. has cost each country $2.9 billion a year.

The recall was classified as Class I, where using the product could cause "serious, adverse health consequences or death."

The FDA and USDA will regulate meat created from cultured cells.

Environmental impact of the food system could increase as much as 90 percent by 2050.

Permanent human colonies on Mars would need to be able to produce their own food.

The techniques could allow us to easily manipulate the look, feel, taste and nutritional content of fruit and vegetables to rapidly create higher quality products.

They may cost 16 jobs across other industries for every steel or aluminum job created.

"We see a distinctive pattern of the wet land areas of the world getting wetter...and the dry areas in between getting dryer."

The quantity of wasted food amounts to around 30% of the average daily calories that each U.S. citizen consumes, the paper shows.

Those who support GMOs believe the crops could address global food shortages as climate change and growing populations put strain on food production.

Ten thousand years ago, farmers set this legume up for a fall.

Between 25 and 41 percent of nitrogen oxide is emanating from agricultural lands in California.

Japanese farmers created the new fruit using a centuries-old method.

Advocacy groups targeting agriculture spent over $10 billion – attacking vaccines, pesticides and herbicides too.

The system, dated to around the 3rd or 4th century A.D. and lost for centuries, lies in the foothills of the Tian Shan Mountains.

Scientists were able to grow plants so quickly that one colleague couldn't believe it.

Want to lessen your environmental impact? Eating healthier is a good start.