Trying to shield a Florida citrus grower from workers who were denied a fair wage, attorneys for the grove operator insisted Tuesday at the 11th Circuit that the hiring crew bears full responsibility.
Read moreThe European Union executive is seeking to protect farmers by imposing fines on retailers and supermarket chains using unfair trade practices.
Read moreThe tale of wine spills across pages covering thousands of years in the story of humanity. Food science researchers are writing a new chapter, transforming the “waste” from humanity’s noble rot into natural antioxidants used in consumer goods.
Read moreTens of thousands of farmers, grain facilities and ethanol plants reached a $1.5 billion settlement Monday with agriculture giant Syngenta over claims related to the company’s genetically engineered corn.
Read moreAn Ohio farming cooperative that owns part of a crop insurance provider argued Tuesday before the Sixth Circuit to retain its ability to issue refunds to members that used its insurance company.
Read moreThe fate of an Iowa law criminalizing undercover investigations of slaughterhouses and meatpacking factories hangs in the balance after a federal judge ruled groups challenging the statute made valid free-speech claims under the First Amendment.
Read moreThe U.S. government wasn’t purely motivated by foreign policy concerns when it lifted a ban on lemon imports from Argentina, a federal judge ruled late Tuesday.
Read moreAs its vital snowpack shrinks and droughts intensify, California’s giant $50 billion agricultural industry is at a crossroads: how to keep feeding the nation while adapting to the reality of climate change.
Read moreA new scientific study has shaken up the churning international debate on genetically engineered crops by finding that they produce higher yields and contain less harmful contaminants than their traditional counterparts.
Read moreResearchers in the United Kingdom are discovering how climate change alters the way key culinary plant species function during higher than normal temperatures, and it’s not good, based on findings released Monday in the journal Molecular Plant.
Read moreThe St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin sued the state’s attorney general Thursday, arguing state laws regulating hemp and cannabidiol do not apply to tribal lands and cannot block its production of hemp oil.
Read moreA federal judge extended a dispute over cattle grazing in Central California on Wednesday, allowing clean-water and forest-mismanagement claims to stand against federal regulators.
Read moreCalifornia’s fertile Central Valley farm soil – and not the tractors and trucks working it – may hold the key ingredient of the state’s notoriously smoggy air, according to a University of California, Davis report.
Read moreThe largest U.S. producer of farmed Atlantic salmon was fined $332,000 on Tuesday for alleged violations of Washington state water quality laws after hundreds of thousands of invasive Atlantic salmon were released last year into waters famed for their native salmon, state officials said.
Read moreA multimillion-dollar lawsuit against Fresno-based farming giant Fowler Packing could include more than 14,000 farmworkers after a federal judge approved several subclasses Wednesday in the employment action.
Read moreA judge refused Tuesday to overturn a nearly century-old law, leaving New York farmworkers vulnerable to union-busting. Advocates call the statute a Jim Crow remnant of the Depression era, when farmworkers were predominantly black.
Read moreHundreds who say they were exposed to a dangerous chemical pesticide while working at banana plantations across Latin America turned a corner Wednesday in their 25-year effort to sue Occidental Chemical Corp.
Read moreIn a win for California’s powerful lobbying industry, a state appeals court ruled Monday that the state’s negotiations with labor unions regarding a 2015 employment law are privileged and can remain hidden from the public.
Read moreA small reindeer herder from the indigenous Sami community in the Norwegian Arctic on Thursday lost a much-publicized appeal with Norway’s top court over a ruling that he must cull 41 of his 116-strong herd.
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