Agriculture

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.

The U.S. pork industry faces a new speed limit on hog slaughtering, the result of a court ruling that worker groups welcomed and industry officials warned could disrupt farmers and processing plants.

A group of Midwestern farmers sued the federal government Thursday alleging they can’t participate in a COVID-19 loan forgiveness program because they’re white.

Corn prices have hit their highest levels in almost eight years. Analysts say they are likely to get a further boost from motorists.

The meat industry’s future and retail pricing are in limbo, anticipating the Biden administration to issue an Emergency Temporary Standard amid the coronavirus pandemic’s squeeze on the economy.

Colorado’s cattle industry has some beef with the state's “Meatout Day,” which encouraged residents to skip eating meat for a day.

Sudden meat shortages last year because of the coronavirus led to millions of dollars in federal grants to help small meat processors expand so the nation could lessen its reliance on giant meatpacking slaughterhouses to supply grocery stores and restaurants.

NASA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) have teamed up to produce a new tool that will provide farmers, meteorologists and researchers alike with access to high-resolution data on soil moisture.

A coalition of 12 states is suing President Biden’s administration over a climate executive order that they claim has the potential to have a serious economic impact across the country through the expansion of federal regulatory power.