State and federal agriculture officials on Wednesday warned that destructive Asian beetles have been found near a Sacramento warehouse and dispatched federal firefighters to climb nearby trees to ...

While biogas — energy produced mostly from crops or animal manure — has long been promoted as part of the European Union’s (EU) energy transition, it now receives renewed attention as a tool to ...

IN THE WORLD OF MOLECULAR FARMING, PLANTS ARE LIVING FACTORIES THAT PRODUCE CHEAP DRUGS, PLASTICS, EVEN HUMAN BLOOD PROTEINS. RESEARCHERS HOPE - AND CRITICS FEAR - WE'LL REAP WHAT WE SOW. Ste-Foy, Que ...

African Model Legislation for the Protection of the Rights of Local Communities, Farmers and Breeders, and for the Regulation of Access to Biological Resources ...

Michael Andreas, 49, on leave as executive vice president of ADM; Terrance Wilson, 60, retired head of ADM's corn-processing unit; and former ADM biochemist Mark Whitacre, 41 have been convicted by a ...

MILLAU, France (AP) -- A French sheep farmer who became a folk hero by vandalizing a McDonald's last year was convicted Wednesday for the attack and sentenced to three months in prison. Jose Bove has ...

Cargill Inc. said Thursday it has agreed to sell its North Star Steel unit, including its St. Paul steel mill that employs 430 workers, to Gerdau Ameristeel Corp. of Canada in a deal valued at ...

IATP is joining hundreds of businesses, faith communities, labor unions, schools, and nonprofits across Minnesota on Friday, ...

On New Year’s Eve, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced the details for $11 billion of a $12 billion farm ...

Coming October 2 from the Campaign for Family Farms and the Environment, a new four-part podcast series about factory farms, and the farmers and rural organizers fighting to end them: How to Fight a ...

Genetically modified corn has always been contentious in Mexico. Maize, as it is known in most of the world, is the core of the country’s diet and cuisine. The global food crop was first domesticated ...

James E. Echols, former president and chief executive officer of Cargill Cotton Co., died Tuesday at Baptist Memorial Hospital- Memphis.\r\n\r\nHe was 65.\r\n\r\nMr. Echols headed Cargill Cotton as ...