Agriculture News

Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has finally accepted that India may experience its possibly worst droughts in recent years due to lacking monsoon.

Operation Khanjar-Wave upon wave of helicopters landed US Marines in the early morning darkness at locations throughout the valley.

This afternoon we travel to Hettinger to assess the damage. andamp;quot;Bumper, the crop of a lifetime.andamp;quot; andamp;quot;WE HAVEN'T EVEN SEEN MOISTURE IN JULY.

Gov. Phil Bredesen says the U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved his request for federal farm assistance for four Middle Tennessee counties due to heavy rains and flooding in May.

L'AQUILA: The G8 group of rich nations and 19 partner countries agreed Friday to put together a package worth at least 15 billion dollars to boost agriculture and food security in the developing world.

Drought, followed by a late freeze, followed by floods combined to reduce the yield.

Spending for food stamps would rise 14 percent under legislation passed by the House Thursday, giving the program a boost as record numbers of people are using the food assistance.

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President Barack Obama is expected to announce a $15 billion agricultural investment initiative to help small farmers feed themselves, delegates at a Group of Eight summit said Thursday.

A Lehigh County dog breeder has been fined more than $150,000 and is facing over 230 charges for allegedly violating the state's dog laws.

The Michigan Department of Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency believe there are illegally stored and buried hazardous materials on a farm in Orleans Township.Crews in white hazmat suits and masks investigated the property Wednesday, located on Ostrum Road near South Johnson Road.

An insect no bigger than a comma is being studied as a natural predator that farmers could use instead of chemicals to protect the nation's soybean crop from aphids.

The House took up a bill on Wednesday that funds a 14 percent increase for food stamps as more and more people become eligible for the program because of rising unemployment.

Two NC legislators are competing in a milk-chugging contest for charity Wednesday.

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Gov. Sonny Perdue says Georgia will receive a high performance bonus of $4 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for its management of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly the Food Stamp Program.

If not for the triple-digit heat, central Texas rancher Debbie Davis could almost think it was a different season entirely.

Sen. Tim Johnson appeared before the Senate Agriculture Committee on Tuesday and urged the panel to confirm Rapid City native Jonathan Adelstein as administrator of rural development for the Rural Utilities Service.

The Senate took up a $42.9 billion measure funding homeland security programs on Tuesday as Capitol Hill's appropriations season revved into high gear.

Pope Benedict XVI called Tuesday for a new world financial order guided by ethics and the search for the common good, denouncing the profit-at-all-cost mentality blamed for bringing about the global financial meltdown.