The Latest Breaking News on Agriculture

A plan to help shore up the Colorado River by cutting off water to alfalfa fields in California’s crop-rich Imperial Valley is finding support among water managers and farmers

"An international public-private partnership is supercharging coffee breeding to save your morning brew"

Farmers in Africa are blaming chemical fertilizers for increasingly acidic soils that have led to production decline

Toxic "forever chemicals" are increasingly being used in US pesticides, threatening human health as they contaminate waterways and are sprayed on staple foods, a study said Wednesday.

Stings from the critters invading Montecito can be painful, can displace native wildlife and are a hazard to agriculture

Rising costs and poor pay from supermarkets are making business unprofitable, says industry body

The insect, whose scientific name is dactylopius opuntiae, was first discovered in Mexico

Research shows ‘forever chemicals’ increasingly found in products as agency claims the chemicals aren’t being used

Shoppers spent a record £847.5 million on strawberries over the last 12 months

The first budget of the new NDA government focused on employment, skill development, infrastructure, and changes in the tax regime. Following days of speculation about sops for Bihar and Andhra Pradesh, Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a range of financial measures to boost development in the two states governed…

Avian influenza viruses have infected the world’s birds for millennia. We first became aware of them in the 19th century, when mass deaths of poultry triggered interest in what was then called “fowl plague”.