The Latest Breaking News on Agriculture

Heating means pests breeding and spreading faster, warn scientists, with simplified current food system already vulnerable

The European Union has delayed the signing of a trade deal with the South American Mercosur bloc, as protests by farmers and push back from key member states France and Italy expose the political fault lines running through Europe’s agricultural policy.

Farmers in tractors have blocked roads, thrown potatoes and eggs, and set off fireworks in Brussels outside a European Union leaders’ summit

Thousands of farmers have taken to the streets of Brussels to protest European Union plans for a trade agreement with the South American Mercosur bloc and the reform of agricultural subsidies. Meanwhile, with France and Italy urging caution and other EU member states pushing for speed, Europe is still divided…

Josh Pyles grew up on the farm where he now lives in Port Royal, Kentucky. His wife, Ashley Pyles, had never farmed before. But both are fully committed at their Blue Meadow Beef farm, where they and their three children raise beef cattle for local consumers.

Simulation finds quarantining is most effective in controlling human spread as long as it is done when number of infected people is as low as two

From floods to droughts, erratic weather patterns are affecting food security, with crop yields projected to fall if changes are not made

Avian influenza mainly affects birds, but in November, an older adult in Washington with backyard poultry became the first confirmed human case of the H5N5 strain

Italy has signaled it might not support a major trade deal between the EU and South American countries

Legal temporary farm workers also worry about the H-2A visa program and Trump’s anti-immigration regime

Tension between farmers and herders has long been a fact of life in West Africa, but climate change is ramping it up