A warming climate and bigger corn yields mean Midwestern corn growers who today rely on rainfall to water their crops will need to switch to irrigation by midcentury if current trends continue, possibly setting off a battle royale for dwindling water supplies, new research released Monday suggests.
Read moreDairy consumers claim in two federal class actions that milk producer Fairlife promotes the “extraordinary care and comfort” of its cows on its product labels but its flagship farm actually ran an inhumane operation where employees beat, burned and starved to death cows and young calves.
Read moreRunoff from U.S. farms may be causing more than 12,000 cases of cancer per year as Americans drink up nitrate-polluted tap water, according to a new study published Monday in the scientific journal Environmental Research.
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 moreBy 2050, the ocean will be home to more plastic than fish, and experts told House lawmakers Tuesday that it is not too late to turn the tide.
Read moreStorm-weary residents in Oklahoma were gutting waterlogged homes Sunday as the Arkansas River continued its slow crest rolling hundreds of miles downstream, even as many kept a cautious eye on this week’s weather forecasts showing more rain.
Read moreLarry Walls should have been out working in his fields last week. Instead, his John Deere tractor is parked on high ground, just beyond the reach of the encroaching floodwaters in the southern Mississippi Delta.
Read morePresident Donald Trump is delivering another $16 billion in aid to farmers hurt by his trade policies, an effort to relieve economic pain among his supporters in rural America and another sign that the U.S.-China trade war likely won’t end anytime soon.
Read moreStriking a blow against a law described as a remnant of Jim Crow discrimination, a New York appellate court on Thursday overwhelmingly upheld the right of the state’s farmworkers to prevent wage theft and labor abuses by forming a union.
Read moreIn a split decision, a Ninth Circuit panel sided with agricultural labor unions Wednesday in a case that pitted private property rights against workers’ rights.
Read moreNearly 2 million acres designated as critical habitat for three imperiled frog species survived a court challenge Wednesday by California farmers.
Read moreAs the Great Lakes region warms faster than the rest of the country, scientists warn climate change may cause extreme storms in the Midwest, lower the quality of drinking water and devastate farmers’ crops.
Read moreEgg buyers claim in a federal class action that Pete and Gerry’s Organics misrepresents its Nellie’s-brand eggs as free range.
Read moreThe trade in fresh produce hinges on getting goods to market promptly. By throwing up borders with the 27 countries remaining in the EU, Brexit could mean long, costly waits for trucks at customs posts. The prospect of U.K. import tariffs, volatile exchange rates and a potentially wounded British economy also is setting off alarms among farmers, workers and officials on the Mediterranean coast.
Read moreThe World Trade Organization panel has ruled in favor of the United States in a dispute with China over agricultural subsidies, saying Beijing went beyond WTO limits in its support for wheat and rice producers.
Read moreThe nation’s farmers are struggling to pay back loans after years of low crop prices and export markets hit by President Donald Trump’s tariffs, with a key government program showing the highest default rate in at least nine years.
Read moreVoters in Toledo, Ohio approved a bill that will amend the municipal charter to give Lake Erie legal standing so they can sue on its behalf, but the measure faced an immediate legal challenge Wednesday from a Wood County farmer.
Read moreLake Erie has in recent years become closely associated with the sheen of toxic green algae that almost crippled the city of Toledo. Now voters will decide in a special election Tuesday whether the lake should have legal standing so citizens can sue on its behalf.
Read moreInguran LLC dba Sexing Technologies claims in a federal complaint that two men with whom it entered into a joint venture stole its trade secrets on bull semen processed to contain more than 90 percent female chromosomes, for sale to dairy farmers.
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