Agriculture

As temperatures recently reached triple digits, farmer Joe Del Bosque inspected the almonds in his parched orchard in California’s agriculture-rich San Joaquin Valley, where a deepening drought threatens one of the state's most profitable crops.

The Biden administration boosted the nation’s food stamp program, a decision that will give more than 40 million poor Americans more to spend on groceries while racking up billions in costs to the program.

As the COVID-19 pandemic raged over the last year, California's almond industry has thrived.

At the beginning of next year, California will begin enforcing an animal welfare proposition approved overwhelmingly by voters in 2018 that requires more space for breeding pigs, egg-laying chickens and veal calves.

NASA is using satellite data to help develop tools to support farmers and assist in the scientific study of soil loss.

ConAgra is cutting its fiscal 2022 outlook due to rising costs, which the food company will try to offset by boosting prices.

Republicans are not convinced that President Biden’s plans to shield farmers and small business owners from changes to death taxes are practical –potentially putting millions of family-owned businesses at risk.

Joe Biden on Friday issued a new executive order aimed at boosting competition in various industries.

Media Mogul, Ted Turner, plans to donate 80,000-acre Nebraska ranch to his own nonprofit research institute, but will still pay property taxes.

From restaurant menus to grocery store aisles, food prices are climbing, and the outlook for rising prices and looming droughts means this problem won’t go away anytime soon.

The Biden administration plans to issue a new rule to protect the rights of farmers who raise cows, chickens and hogs against the country’s largest meat processors as part of a plan to encourage more competition in the agriculture sector.

Some of President Biden’s plans to raise revenue for social programs via tax increases will exempt U.S. farmers and other small businesses.

Agricultural giant Dole Diversified North America, Inc. announced that some cases of its fresh blueberries would be recalled due to potential cyclospora contamination.

The Biden administration sets out to increase domestic manufacturing, limit supply chain shortages, and become less reliant on competitors, specifically China, in addition to tackling the computer chip shortage.

A criminal organization likely based in Russia is believed to be behind a ransomware attack on JBS, one of the largest meat producers in the world, White House principal deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Tuesday.

A group representing pork producers urged the federal government Tuesday to let them continue an effort to speed up the processing of pigs into bacon and ham despite a union’s claim that the increased volume endangers workers.

The Department of Agriculture will begin making loan forgiveness payments to thousands of minority farmers in June.

If you haven’t bought your mom flowers yet for Mother’s Day, don’t be surprised when you see the prices.

President Biden has said his tax proposals would make big business and wealthy investors pay their fair share.

In total, Bill and Melinda Gates have acquired land in more than a dozen states.