USDA: Modified wheat appears to be isolated
The Agriculture Department says it has no indications that genetically modified wheat found in Oregon last month has spread beyond the field in which ...
Horse slaughterhouse accuses USDA of IRS tactics
A southeastern New Mexico company's plans to convert a cattle plant into a horse slaughterhouse has hit another roadblock, this time over an ...
Kan. farmer sues Monsanto over GMO wheat discovery
A Kansas farmer has sued seed giant Monsanto over last week's discovery of genetically engineered experimental wheat in an 80-acre field in Oregon, ...
Farmers face tough decisions from delayed planting
It's decision time for many Midwest corn farmers stuck in one of the wettest springs ever: Plant late in ground that's been too wet, replant corn in ...
USDA: Unapproved modified wheat in Oregon field
Field workers at an Eastern Oregon wheat farm were clearing acres for the bare offseason when they came across a patch of wheat that didn't belong.
New rules for labeling meat go into effect in US
Shoppers in the U.S. will soon have more information about where their meat comes from after new federal labeling rules went into effect Thursday.
Flamboyant Texas swindler Billie Sol Estes dies
Billie Sol Estes' name was synonymous with Texas-sized schemes, greed and corruption. The flamboyant swindler became one of the most notorious men in ...
Wet spring brings troubling start to corn planting
John Reifsteck looks out at his muddy 1,800-acre central Illinois farm and wonders when he'll get to plant. Like so many other Midwest growers who ...
Cranberry farmers struggle as surplus drops prices
U.S. cranberry farmers who spent millions of dollars to replant and expand bogs face a financial crisis after a huge harvest in Canada flooded the ...
Lawyer: Inspectors clear NM horse slaughterhouse
About 5 miles from this southeastern New Mexico town's famed UFO museum, tucked between dairy farms, is a nondescript metal building that could be ...
USDA starts new program to track farm animals
The federal government has launched a new livestock identification program to help agriculture officials to quickly track livestock in cases of ...
Louisiana company recalls 468K pounds of meat
The U.S. Department of Agriculture says a Louisiana-based meat packing company has expanded a recall of meat products because of possible bacterial ...
Organic apples, pears to be antibiotic-free
The organic apples you buy in the grocery store will soon be free of a widely used antibiotic. The National Organic Standards Board late Thursday ...
Okla. governor signs horse slaughter legislation
Oklahoma's 50-year-old ban on horse slaughtering was lifted Friday when the governor signed a new law that will allow facilities to process and export ...
USDA expanding program to fight rural poverty
A federal program intended to reduce poverty and improve life in rural areas through better access to federal funding is expanding to six states, ...
Horse shooting highlights slaughter debate
An Internet video that shows a meat company employee swearing at animal activists before shooting a horse in the head highlights the increasing ...
US mink pelt prices skyrocket with demand in China
A decade ago, fur rancher Bob Zimbal had about 34,000 mink at his three southeastern Wisconsin farms. He was in survival mode, struggling to compete ...
$1M pilot project aims to take out feral pigs
Using the cover of darkness, feral pigs have learned to outsmart even the most seasoned hunters as they set about on their nightly terrors, rooting ...
Lawsuit tests bloggers' freedom of speech rights
A colleague of the late conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart is asking a federal court of appeals to throw out a defamation case brought against him ...
USDA suspends some ag reports due to budget cuts
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's statistical arm said it won't issue some agricultural reports this year because of automatic federal budget cuts, ...
Feds bust up $100M NC crop insurance fraud ring
Federal investigators have unraveled a massive scheme among dozens of insurance agents, claims adjusters, brokers and farmers in eastern North ...
Family: Woman killed by lion was a tragic accident
Family members of the young woman killed in a lion attack at a Central California animal park say they believe no rules were broken and the volunteer ...
Family: Death of woman in lion cage was accident
Relatives of a 24-year-old intern killed by a lion at a California animal park said Friday they believe the facility followed safety protocols and the ...
Lion killed intern as she was cleaning enclosure
Authorities said Thursday they believe a lion killed a 24-year-old volunteer at a Central California animal park after it escaped from a feeding cage ...
Volunteer killed by lion at Calif. animal park
Authorities are trying to determine what provoked a lion at an exotic animal park in Central California to attack and maul to death a 24-year-old ...
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