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The featured speaker at the 2009 Nebraska Soybean Day and Machinery Expo is an agriculture business management specialist from Iowa.

An oil boom is under way in California's agricultural heartland, as evolving tastes and a trend toward healthy fare have transformed a profession as old as civilization: olive production for the extra virgin market.

Greenhouse gas emissions from European livestock and fertilisers exceed the carbon absorption of all the region's trees and soils, underlining the need to cap farms' contribution to climate change, a study shows.

It will soon be the season for holiday decorations, but state officials are urging homeowners to avoid hanging any wreaths or garland that may include invasive plant species.

Thousands of marine species eke out an existence in the ocean's pitch-black depths by feeding on the snowlike decaying matter that cascades down, and even sunken whale bones, according to a report released Sunday.

A magnitude 3.7 earthquake has rattled Southern California's Big Bear Lake area, followed by a sharp aftershock.The U.S. Geological Survey says the first quake struck at 7:55 a.m. Sunday, about seven miles north of Big Bear City.The same area was rocked by a 2.4 magnitude aftershock two-and-a-half minutes later.A San Bernardino County Sheriff's ...

An Ohio university is celebrating the International Year of Astronomy by displaying never-before-seen photos from NASA space telescopes.

Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 21 : The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development has sanctioned Rs.49.53 crore for the development of the Kollam Technopark, an IT park coming up in Kollam, Kerala.

About 53mm of rain has fallen on the city between Saturday evening and Sunday morning, Bureau of Meteorology senior forecaster Peter Blake said.

A thousand people were evacuated and traffic was stopped after the Galeras volcano erupted in southern Colombia without causing casualties, officials said Saturday.

Thousands of Spanish farmers took to the streets of Madrid to protest at the low prices they receive for their products and saying commercial middle men take too high a cut.

Five Vermont dairy farmers are being asked to provide records proving their workers are legal, federal immigration officials said Friday.

Business appears to be slowly improving in rural areas of 11 Midwest and Plains states, but the economy there remains weak, according to a new survey of bankers.

Federal immigration officials are cracking down on Vermont dairy farmers as part of a national effort, asking them to provide records to prove their workers are legal.

The Chinese government has held an American oil geologist on suspicion of stealing state secrets for nearly two years, prompting President Obama to raise the issue during his visit to Beijing this week, the American Embassy in Beijing said Friday.

This amazing image also shows thousands of star clusters, strewn like glittering gems, churning inside Centaurus A. Centaurus A is the nearest giant, elliptical galaxy, at a distance of about 11 million light-years. One of the most studied objects in the southern sky, by 1847 the unique appearance of this galaxy had already caught the attention of ...

They arrive at the meeting by U.S. military helicopter, politely accept a cup of tea and haggle over a U.S.-funded water project gone awry.

Maize, or corn, as it is commonly called by North American consumers, is one of the world's most important plants and the most valuable agricultural crop grown in the United States, representing $47 billion in annual value.

A former B-2 stealth bomber engineer accused of spying for China suffers from narcissistic personality disorder, expert witnesses for the prosecution and the defense testified in federal court Thursday.

Chrome OS: "Turning On a PC Should Be Like Turning On Your TV" Direct from Google headquarters, and liveblogged by John Paczkowski, Google's Sundar Pichai, vice president of product management and Matthew Papakipos, engineering director for Google Chrome OS, explain some of the advantages of the operating system.