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Geologists plan to drill a pair of mile-deep holes in southern Idaho in a hunt for geothermal fields that could be tapped to produce energy.

The Obama administration intends to seek resolution to a lawsuit filed by American Indian farmers who alleged discrimination in the granting of federal agricultural loans over three decades.

North Carolina's highest court says three cigarette companies can stop making payments to tobacco farmers in Maryland and Pennsylvania through a decade-old settlement.

Dinosaur footprints have been discovered by scientists in Nelson. The 70 million-year-old fossils are the first dinosaur footprints recognised in New Zealand and the first evidence of dinosaurs in the South Island.

An animal rights group on Friday asked a U.S. Department of Agriculture agency to look into an owner's treatment of a circus elephant that escaped and was hit by a sport utility vehicle on a northwestern Oklahoma highway.

FILE - In this file photo taken Aug. 4, 2009, dying crops and weeds stand in a flooded field near... FILE - In this file photo taken Aug.

The smells and sounds of country life are greeting Prince Charles and his wife Camilla today at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair in Toronto.

Airborne nitrogen pollution from vehicle exhaust and farm fertilizer is turning algae in the alpine lakes of Rocky Mountain National Park into junk food for fish, a study says.

CAMDEN, N.J. - A New Jersey food store owner and two employees have admitted defrauding the federal food stamp program of more than $280,000. Mehal Mothon, who owned a Citgo Food Mart in Westville, pleaded guilty Thursday to conspiracy to embezzle from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Supplemental Nutrition and Assistance Program.

The Washington State Department of Natural Resources has issued an Emergency Order to Suspend Surface Mining for a mine located where the Nile landslide happened .

When the news broke on Wednesday that a domestic cat had come down with H1N1 swine flu, probably transmitted to the feline by sick owners, many people no doubt wondered how vulnerable their own pets were to the illness.

No evidence of De Soto's path between Tallahassee and North Carolina has been found until now, and few sites have been located anywhere.

Hartwell Huddleston returned the extra combine he bought to help harvest what looked to be one of his best soybean crops ever.

A Jurassic Park is coming to the St. Louis Science Center this weekend. 20 life-sized animatronics dinosaurs will be on display.

This discovery, made with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, resolves a ten-year mystery surrounding this object.

Cisco Systems Inc. is forecasting revenue growth for the first time in a year, offering further evidence that orders are rising again after passing what CEO John Chambers called a "tipping point" in the downturn this summer.

The swine flu virus has been confirmed in a cat treated at the Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine.

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A federal Agriculture Department official in southeastern Minnesota is announcing $17 million in grants to address the needs of beginning farmers and ranchers.

Cisco and EMC Tuesday kicked off a cloud-chasing joint venture called Acadia that includes VMware and Intel as minority investors.