The Italian wine grape harvest season has started with Pinot and Chardonnay grapes in the northern Lombardy’s Franciacorta region, with experts anticipating a better year after an especially weak 2017.
Read moreGermany’s grape harvest is officially underway on its earliest date yet after a scorching summer that has many other farmers groaning but — so far — is promising to be good for vintners.
Read moreThe Center for Food Safety accused Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue in a federal complaint Wednesday of failing to set standards for labeling genetically engineered food by the July 29 deadline.
Read morePeople in the southwest Amazon may have transitioned to cultivating crops like squash and beans far earlier than previously believed, a team of archaeologists in Brazil has found.
Read moreThe Agriculture Department is announcing a $12 billion “short-term” plan to help U.S. farmers hurt by retaliatory tariffs.
Read moreA man sued a Texas animal hospital and a grain wholesaler in Navarro County Court, claiming he was attacked by a vicious cow.
Read moreAfrica’s ancient baobab, with its distinctive swollen trunk and known as the “tree of life,” is under a new and mysterious threat, with some of the largest and oldest dying abruptly in recent years.
Read moreReinstatement of pesticide rules that protect agricultural workers led three state attorneys general on Friday to drop their lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency.
Read moreCorrado Rodio walks outside the thick stone walls of his family’s ancient olive oil mill and farmstead, the Masseria Brancati, and strolls over to a 2,000-year-old olive tree at the farm’s entrance. “It was planted by the Romans,” he says. But will it survive a catastrophic disease that’s spread north and now is only a few miles away from Rodio’s farm? Rodio doesn’t think his trees will be spared.
Read moreThe 11th Circuit blocked a cotton-marketing association Monday from demanding more than $1 million from a family of South Georgia farmers who took their business elsewhere.
Read moreRising global temperatures will lead to considerable spikes in the variability of annual corn yields by the end of the century, increasing the likelihood of simultaneous low outputs across several high-producing regions, a new study from the National Academy of Sciences finds.
Read moreThe Center for Food Safety and 13 organic food groups lost another legal challenge this week to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s process for reviewing substances used in organic farming.
Read moreIn an embarrassment for House Republican leaders, conservatives on Friday scuttled a bill that combines stricter work and job training requirements for food stamp recipients with a renewal of farm subsidies popular in GOP-leaning farm country.
Read moreThree neonicotinoid insecticides will remain banned in Europe, the General Court ruled Thursday, finding the measures justified to protect honeybees.
Read moreThe Southeast Alaska Conservation Council brought a federal complaint against the U.S. Department of Agriculture for using a 2007 environmental impact statement to approve logging of 31.4 million board-feet on 1,208 acres in Tongass National Forest.
Read moreAttorneys made their closing arguments Wednesday in a case where the city of Pomona claims that a Chilean chemical company “poisoned” its groundwater over the course of decades, costing millions in cleanup costs.
Read moreJurors in a federal courtroom in Los Angeles were given the fundamentals on South American mining, citrus orchards in California and water testing Friday in a case involving a California city who says their groundwater was contaminated due to “defectively designed fertilizer” imported to the United States around 1930.
Read moreThe European Union made a key breakthrough on Friday to completely ban pesticides that harm bees and their crop pollination.
Read moreA federal jury on Thursday awarded more than $50 million in damages to neighbors of an industrial hog operation found responsible for intense smells, noise and other disturbances so bad people couldn’t enjoy their rural homes.
Read moreA class of more than 60,000 farmers claim they were tricked into agreeing to pay an unfair amount of attorney fees in their cases against agribusiness giant Syngenta over its genetically modified corn.
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