The SEC brought a federal complaint Wednesday accusing Michael E. Cone, 36, formerly of McKinney, Texas, a felon, of defrauding investors of at least $3.3 million in a bogus marijuana-farming business, Greenview Investment Partners.
Read moreA new study from University of California, Berkeley, suggests that improving soil quality through better farming practices could slow global warming.
Read moreIrrigation techniques promoted to farmers around the world as water-saving are actually increasing water usage, according to a new study.
Read moreIn the latest chapter of California’s ceaseless war to manage shrinking water sources, regulators are considering drastic changes that would reduce the amount of snowmelt available to San Francisco and farmers during dry years.
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 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 moreMany farmers remain critical of President Donald Trump’s tariffs and the damage done to commodity prices and markets but were appreciative Tuesday that he offered to provide some cash to help offset their losses.
Read moreThe Agriculture Department is announcing a $12 billion “short-term” plan to help U.S. farmers hurt by retaliatory tariffs.
Read moreCharred remains of food found in a cave indicates hunter-gatherers knew how to bake bread 14,400 years ago – thousands of years before the advent of agriculture – according to a new study published Monday.
Read moreThe Environmental Protection Agency backed off the temporary suspension of federal requirements aimed at protecting farm workers on Thursday, following a lawsuit filed by three states two weeks ago.
Read moreKubota Tractor Corp. is the latest to face a federal class action accusing it of making tractors with soy-based wiring, whose flavor attracts rats and mice; carmakers have faced similar claims.
Read moreThe U.S. Department of Agriculture improperly rescinded an Ohio farming cooperative’s ability to offer insurance rebates to its members after a merger that doubled its membership, the Sixth Circuit ruled Monday.
Read moreWith 1 in 10 pollinating insect species on the verge of extinction and a third of bee and butterfly species in decline, the European Commission on Friday issued a swarm of plans to protect creatures vital to our own survival.
Read moreThe largest tree fruit grower in California won a legal victory Wednesday, when an appellate court ruled an agricultural labor board inappropriately set aside a crucial vote regarding union representation.
Read moreThree blue states filed suit filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against the Trump administration, saying the suspension of pesticide rules designed to protect agricultural workers was illegal.
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 moreA federal judge on Monday dramatically cut $50 million jury award to neighbors of an industrial hog operation for intense the smells, noise and other disturbances they’ve endured.
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.
Read moreA major European dairy cooperative says that currency swings caused by Brexit are among the reasons it has to cut costs by over $495 million over the next three years.
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