Agriculture News

Minnesota has started a hotline to help farmers feeling the financial and psychological impact the tough times.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture says Advance Food Co. of Enid is recalling approximately 110,730 pounds of frozen beef steak fritter products, sold to restaurants, that may contain foreign materials - bits of plastic.

Older Americans who were raised on stories of the Great Depression and acquired lifelong habits of thrift now find themselves crowding soup kitchens and food pantries in greater numbers for the first time after seeing retirement funds, second jobs and nest eggs wiped out by recession.

BILLINGS - For 100 years Henry Armstrong's family has farmed the same patch of central Montana land, hanging on through the Depression, low wheat prices and the ever-present risk that the next generation would move on.

MADISON - The state has issued a consumer alert about Blue Marble Family Farm dairy products because it may not be properly pasteurized.

In this photo taken Nov. 23, 2009, Lisa Zilligen, 28, serves lunch for her three children at her home in Chicago.

With the best of the crop off to market, growers say this year it's cheaper to leave leftovers on the trees than to pick and sell them for juice.

RICHMOND, Va. - The bluish haze that has hung over the Third Street Diner's bar and booths for decades finally lifts next month as a new anti-smoking law takes hold in Virginia, a huge shift for a state whose tobacco habit dates to the Jamestown settlement some 400 years ago.

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Under attack over sharp rise in prices of essential food items, including vegetables, the Centre on Thursday asked states to crack down on black marketers and said that it could extend a ban on futures trading on sugar.

Gov. Jim Doyle has issued an executive order giving farmers another month to transport heavy harvest loads.

Just as shoppers in North Carolina prepare to find Christmas gifts, some of them will be looking for a tree to place them under.

Nov. 25: Joined by daughters Sasha and Malia, President Barack Obama granted an official pardon to the White House turkey Wednesday.

By Ibrahim Mohamed Mogadishu - The UN's World Food Programme must immediately stop importing relief rations to Somalia, hardline rebels said on Wednesday, accusing the aid agency of devastating local agriculture.

Nov. 25 - The drought in the Amazon has killed thousands of cattle and destroyed acres upon acres of crops and officials fear that the drought may worsen over the next few weeks.

Stuttgart-based Riceland Foods Inc. says its sales for the fiscal year are up by 8 percent from the year before.

Making broadband Internet access universally available is this century's version of building highways or extending railroads coast-to-coast, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission said Tuesday.

In this photo taken Sept. 2, 2009, visitors admire the John Deere exhibits at the Farm Progress Show in Decatur, Ill.

Savor that holiday sweet potato pie and those marshmallow yams while you can. Agricultural experts and industry officials expect enough sweet potatoes for Thanksgiving and Christmas, traditionally a high-demand period.

South Dakota farmers are making progress on harvest, but they're still well behind the normal pace because of the wet fall.