By Theodore Ross Today, Chuck Abbott, FERN’s stalwart chronicler of American agricultural affairs, announced that he would be retiring from his post as lead writer on FERN’s Ag Insider news service.

Since the 1980s, more and more plants have evolved to become immune to the biochemical mechanisms that herbicides leverage to kill them. This herbicidal resistance threatens to decrease ...

Public health officials confirmed six additional cases of bird flu infection of farmworkers, five in California and one in Oregon, raising the U.S. total to 52 this year. The Oregon infection was the ...

Certain foods are more likely than others to wreak havoc on your stomach. Cucumbers have carried Salmonella, peaches have been contaminated with Listeria, and eating a salad feels a bit like ...

Half a century ago, in 1973, I entered the news business as a reporter for a small weekly paper in Missouri. And now, it’s time to leave the party. I will continue my reporting here at Ag Insider ...

“One in five farmers could be pushed out of business by the sharp drop in farm income this year,” said Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith at a Senate hearing on disaster aid, and Arkansas Sen. John ...

California Rep. Jim Costa said on Wednesday that he was seeking party support to become the Democratic leader on the House Agriculture Committee, a post now held by Georgia Rep. David Scott. The race ...

One fourth of the $99 billion in disaster aid requested by President Biden would be funneled through the USDA, with the bulk of the $24 billion devoted to offsetting lost crop production and reduced ...

A child in populous Alameda County tested positive for the avian influenza virus and was recovering at home from mild upper respiratory symptoms, said California public health officials on Tuesday.

A child in populous Alameda County tested positive for the avian influenza virus and was recovering at home from mild upper respiratory symptoms, said California public health officials on Tuesday.

A child in populous Alameda County tested positive for the avian influenza virus and was recovering at home from mild upper respiratory symptoms, said California public health officials on Tuesday.

The government would send $2 billion to financially beleaguered farmers almost immediately under a mammoth farm bill proposed by Senate Agriculture chairwoman Debbie Stabenow on Monday — months sooner ...