Florida asked the justices to cap Georgia’s use of water in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin, arguing the Peach State is using more than its fair share and causing devastation to its southern neighbor’s oyster fisheries.
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To realize his dream of satellite-powered internet, tech billionaire Elon Musk needs to install antennas around the world. In northern France, a village hopes he’ll decide to keep those antennas far away.
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There are 35 types of fruits and vegetables grown in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley. Freezing temperatures may financially ruin some of the region’s growers because they cannot get insurance for their crops.
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French researchers announced Tuesday that they had succeeded in cultivating the rare white truffles mainly found in Italy, a breakthrough that could spur more widespread efforts to grow the prized delicacy.
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India’s top court on Friday sought the government and Twitter’s response to a petition seeking greater regulation of content on social media platforms amid a debate over free speech.
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A British farmer came up with a jokey idea to rent out her goats to liven up video call meetings — and found an unexpected source of lockdown income.
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Heavy rains followed by an extended drought, an increase in local consumption and a drop in the number of marijuana farmers have caused a shortage in the island’s famed but largely illegal market that experts say is the worst they’ve seen.
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As farmers camp out at the edges of India’s capital, protesting new agricultural laws they say will devastate their earnings, the mainstream and social media have come under unprecedented attacks from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party.
Read moreThe owners of an organic produce farm were properly awarded enhanced damages in their suit against the owners of a neighboring farm, an appeals court in Oregon ruled. The plaintiffs’ newly planted crop of organic salad plants was damaged when the defendants’ cows escaped from their enclosure and trampled and defecated on the plants.
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Human activities such as farming and construction are threatening the survival of scores of wild species by forcing them to travel more to avoid mankind’s impact, research showed Monday.
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The verdict is a big win for environmentalists, who want to see Shell held responsible for one of the world’s most polluted places, the Niger Delta.
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Denmark has said it could pay out more than 3.1 billion to its mink farmers after it closed down the industry over coronavirus fears.
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Tens of thousands of protesting farmers drove long lines of tractors into India’s capital on Tuesday, breaking through police barricades, defying tear gas and storming the historic Red Fort as the nation celebrated Republic Day.
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Arguments that Congress intended to ban hydroponically grown crops from organic certification did not appear to persuade a judge overseeing a legal dispute over what foods can be labeled “organic.”
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India’s top court on Tuesday temporarily put on hold the implementation of agricultural reform laws and ordered the creation of an independent committee of experts to negotiate with farmers who have been protesting against the legislation.
Read moreA federal court in California denied E&J Gallo Winery’s request to dismiss a patent dispute brought by Vineyard Investigations, which claims the winery used its patented irrigation technologies without permission.
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Farm workers won an eleventh-hour reprieve from a Department of Labor rule that would freeze their wages for the next two years.
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Denmark’s parliament on Monday passed a law banning the keeping of minks for a year, following the country’s controversial cull of all minks over a mutated strain of the novel coronavirus.
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The nation’s largest farmworkers union urged a federal judge in California Monday to halt a pending wage freeze for immigrant workers, arguing the Trump administration rushed the contentious plan that could save farmers a combined $167 million annually in labor costs.
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On a small farm south of Tirana, donkeys happily munch on hay while customers flock to scoop up bottles of their milk, a niche product winning fans who believe in its health benefits.
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