Agriculture News

CHANDIGARH: All seven independent legislators supporting the Congress in Haryana were Saturday accommodated in the new government headed by Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda.

The government will open a Krishi Vigyan Kendra , a centre for agricultural training, in each of the newly created districts across the country, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said here Friday.

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.

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.

Alabama Agriculture and Industries Commissioner Ron Sparks on Wednesday extended a two-year-old order banning the sale of untested fish from Vietnam and China in Alabama.

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.

Canadian fertilizer giant Agrium Inc. has made what it calls a "best and final" offer for U.S. competitor CF Industries Holdings Inc.

Curly's Food, Inc., a Sioux City, Iowa, establishment, is recalling approximately 12,181 pounds of roast beef deli products because they were inadvertently mislabeled and contain an undeclared allergen, soy, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service announced today.

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.

The state Ecology and Agriculture Departments have a request for grain ships off the Washington coast: Hey, stop throwing those pesticide canisters overboard.

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

Alabama Agriculture and Industries Commissioner Ron Sparks says some fish being imported into Alabama have tested positive for a banned substance.

Montana political and agricultural leaders hope Berkshire Hathaway's planned purchase of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad will lead to lower shipping costs in Montana, but they doubt much will change.

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

The U.S. Agriculture Department has announced more than $16 million in grants and loans for nine rural water projects, including one in northeast Nevada.

Nokia Life Tools, the service which gives consumers in small towns and rural areas the ability to get a range of livelihood and life-improvement services on their mobile phones, will launch in Indonesia in early December 2009.

Archer Daniels Midland Co. said Tuesday that its first-quarter profit tumbled 53 percent as the global recession dragged down demand for crops and ethanol, but demand is improving in some key markets.