Agriculture

Researchers studying insecticide use on U.S. crops show that overall use has declined in the last 20 years, but what is being used is more toxic to bees.

The development of farming and introduction of livestock during the Neolithic Revolution was an opportunity for the African wolf and boosted populations, suggests study.

The former CEO of AT&T Broadband penned an Iowa newspaper column arguing that corporations have been able to celebrate but President Donald Trump's economic policies are "destroying" rural America.

With long-awaited federal regulations, farmers can begin growing hemp without fear of retribution from banks, insurance companies and local authorities.

How and why to support local farmers, what products to buy and how to celebrate National Farmers' Day 2019.

Chlorpyrifos is a widely used chemical product used on a variety of crops such as soya beans, alfafa, citrus, almonds, cotton, grapes and walnuts.

More than 3,000 quails, 1,000 chukars and 100 chickens died in the blaze in Greenup County, Kentucky.

"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.