The Seventh Circuit ruled that the U.S. Department of Agriculture arbitrarily determined that a farm was no longer eligible for certain benefits, because a farmer cut down nine trees. The agency determined that the tree removal converted several acres of wetlands into croplands, but it did not present any evidence that the tree removal “altered the wetland hydrology.”
Read moreThe National Park Service plans to shoot a few elk native to California in a park near San Francisco, a move that has angered some environmental groups that accuse the agency of putting cattle ranchers ahead of the needs of preservation.
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A tug-of-war over management of a Texas aquifer that provides drinking water for 2 million people, pitting farmers and river conservationists against San Antonio residents, went before a Fifth Circuit panel on Wednesday.
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In 35 years working the land, Kenyan farmer Josphat Muchiri Njonge has never seen his coffee shrubs burst with so much fruit on his verdant hillside plot outside bustling Nairobi.
Read moreThe health of 30 million students is in jeopardy, including 22 million low-income children, argue scientists who filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration to stop rollbacks to school lunch nutrition standards.
Read moreThe nation’s largest sugar cane producer filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over low water levels in Florida’s Lake Okeechobee, the main source of water for the company’s farming operations.
Read moreA federal judge in California conditionally certified a class of agricultural workers recruited from Mexico to work in a produce company’s strawberry fields. The workers claim they were denied meal and rest breaks, required to pay a supervisor a fee and were not reimbursed for travel expenses.
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A popular pesticide shown to be particularly toxic to children can continue to be used on commercial crops, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday.
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Pesticides are killing off bee populations across the globe, and it is a major concern for lawmakers and environmental advocates – and a major threat to the food chain.
Read moreA federal judge refused to dismiss the Animal Welfare Institute’s claims that the U.S. Department of Agriculture and its Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service failed to deliver records on humane treatment of livestock.
Read moreChiquita Brands should not be excluded from the Ecuadorean portion of a mass tort complaint involving workers’ exposure to toxic pesticides on banana plantations in Central America, a federal magistrate recommended.
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Coral reefs are dying at epidemic levels around the globe. Climate change may not be the only culprit.
Read moreA federal judge advanced most claims that Monsanto’s dicamba herbicide caused an “ecological disaster” when it drifted and ruined crops.
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The U.S. government is growing the largest crop of research marijuana in five years, responding to interest in varieties with high levels of THC and CBD.
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Ancient grains and crops may have evolved their ability to reproduce in response to humanity’s farming of them, according to research released Monday.
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Global food supplies are at the mercy of pests that can spread crop diseases across multiple nations that often go unnoticed or are too difficult to contain in low-income countries, but researchers say they can stop the next epidemic with a coordinated network of agriculture experts, food scientists and academics.
Read moreItalian biologists, laboratory workers and government officials under investigation for failing to stop the early spread of an incurable and catastrophic plant infection from Central America that is killing tens of thousands of olive trees in southern Italy will not face criminal charges, but the scientific investigation continues.
Read morePresident Trump’s threat to impose punitive tariffs on all Mexican imports could affect millions of jobs in the United States’ southern neighbor —including more than 70,000 of them in the tequila industry.
Read moreFarmers in the United States use 72 pesticides banned in the European Union, 17 agricultural substances outlawed in China and 11 pesticides no longer allowed in Brazil, the Center for Biological Diversity revealed in research published Thursday.
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