The Corn Belt spring relays are on the mark for a fast start. Midwest farmers are hoping dry, warm weather gives them a chance to complete corn and soybean planting in a sprint, not the marathon ...

Maryland farmers will be asked this year to reduce their use of a popular but toxic weed killer that is showing up in drinking water and Chesapeake Bay, state agriculture officials say. The Maryland ...

Florida Strawberry Association spokesman Chip Hinton was handing out some big, juicy, red berries at an industry trade show recently when an Orlando TV news crew brought out camera and microphone and ...

When Palmer and Esther Miner rise each morning at 3:30, they think about milk. Like most dairy farmers, they view producing milk as their life and livelihood. Declining milk prices and increasing ...

In recent years a few southern Illinois farmers have been growing canola, an improved type of rapeseed used to make edible oil. A few other farmers have been experimenting with amaranth, a ...

Each autumn for the past three years, Loveen Jackson of Hartford has received coupons to buy red apples, pears, collard greens and other fresh fruit and vegetables at local farmers’ markets. This year ...

A delegation of lawmakers promised Florida farmers Thursday that it would introduce legislation to protect growers from the fallout of the state’s most expensive pesticide disaster. Four state ...

‘TC To some observers the Harford County Rural Plan has become a political football, and debate on the issue reached the two-minute warning during the final public hearing Monday. The outpouring of ...

Farmers who are angry at Palm Beach County commissioners for preventing them from developing their land are the leading contributors to a campaign to keep the commission from seizing any more power.

“One of the things that I love about Portland is that three friends with an idea can make something happen,” says Craig Mosbaek. The idea was the Portland Farmers Market, which now draws around ...

A bumper corn crop, wet weather last fall and robust grain prices are adding up to a potentially deadly spring for farmers working in grain bins. When grain clumps along the sides of the storage bin, ...

LIMA, PeruLIMA, Peru — The controversial intelligence chief of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori on Monday pleaded guilty to charges in the 1992 massacre of six farmers who were accused of ...