Agriculture News

Monsanto Co is hosting a "Bee Summit." Bayer AG is breaking ground on a "Bee Care Center." And Sygenta AG is funding grants for research into the accelerating demise of honeybees in the United States, where the insects pollinate fruits and vegetables that make up roughly a quarter of the American diet.

Pakistan has taken a number of steps to prevent fertilizers made within its borders for agriculture from being used as explosives in roadside bombs that target American troops in Afghanistan, said a top U.S. military officer Monday.

The U.N. has new weapons to fight hunger, boost nutrition and reduce pollution, and they might be crawling or flying near you right now: edible insects.

The value of the West Country's fertile fields has rocketed to a new high - despite spending much of 2012 and 2013 under water.

Farmers in Fukushima have started planting rice in the former radioactive no-go zone, as close as 15 km from the TEPCO plant which suffered a meltdown in March 2011.

The House Agriculture Committee is considering a five-year farm bill that would make small cuts to the $80 billion-a-year food stamp program.

6, 2010 file photo, people on a tour of Plum Island, N.Y., off the coast of Long Island, watch seals relaxing on the rocky shore.

In Europe, the arrival of the farmers who replaced Mesolithic hunter-gatherers happened in force 9,000 years ago but it was happening elsewhere prior to that.

Everyone has a comfort zone or two. I think I have two. I love to talk sports and coach and I also really enjoy the animal science or animal husbandry side of my job.

Purdue University's Allen County Extension is looking for neighborhoods that would like to become greener.

Some lucky person walked into a Publix supermarket in suburban Florida over the past few days and bought a ticket now worth an estimated $590.5 million - the highest Powerball jackpot in history.

Billie Sol Estes may have been infamous as a swindler who spent time in prison for Texas-sized schemes, but his family and friends recall a loving, generous man who once gave his Cadillac to a stranger who needed a ride.

Boulder County residents can see examples of how water is a critical component of farming operations in the county, during an all-day June 8 tour highlighting those water resources.

Rain showers benefit Montana agriculture, but severe weather is another story. Storms should not be taken lightly, as some North Texan residents learned first hand Wednesday evening.

Jacqueline Johnson, executive director of Food For The Poor Jamaica, addressing Thursday's closing ceremony for economic diversification programme for banana producing parishes, at the Esher Seventh-day Adventist Church in St Mary.

Chicken connoisseurs in North Carolina's capital city are holding their annual tour of backyard pens, part of a national movement of backyard poultry farming.

A brush fire broke out at 1:30 p.m. in Castaic on Friday, May 17, 2013. NewsChopper 4 was on the scene.

The Urban Farms Process and Code Coordination Working Group of the Austin/Travis County Sustainable Food Policy Board held its last of three working group sessions Wednesday night.

They have uncovered evidence for the first time that people living in Xincun 5,000 years ago may have practised agriculture -- before the arrival of domesticated rice in the region.

A report from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization says insects offer a huge potential for improving the world's food security.