By Maya Gebeily Qlayaa, LEBANON (Reuters) – The last time Lebanese farmer Zakaria Farah stepped onto his fields outside the southern town of Qlayaa was in January – but it was not to plant. With shelling in the distance, he swiftly dug his hands into the soil to gather samples that could determine his family’s […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The National Black Farmers Association called on Tractor Supply’s president and CEO Tuesday to step down after the rural retailer announced that it would drop most of its corporate diversity and climate advocacy efforts. The resignation demand emerged as Tractor Supply, which sells products ranging from farming equipment to pet supplies, […]
By Tom Hals (Reuters) – Challengers to federal rules covering a range of industries including mining and farming got a fresh shot on Tuesday at rolling back regulations as the U.S. Supreme Court applied a new standard for reviewing the power of federal agencies. Nine lower-court rulings were vacated by the Supreme Court and sent […]
Heavy rains are jeopardizing the harvest in Germany, Joachim Rukwied, head of the German Farmers’ Association said on Monday. The grain harvest is predicted to come in at 42 million tons, slightly below last year’s result, Rukwied explained during a farm visit in Frankfurt. Warm and moist conditions were promoting rot in the potato crop, […]
Heavy rains are jeopardizing the harvest in Germany, Joachim Rukwied, head of the German Farmers’ Association said on Monday. The grain harvest is predicted to come in at 42 million tons, slightly below last year’s result, Rukwied explained during a farm visit in Frankfurt. Warm and moist conditions were promoting rot in the potato crop, […]
The knee-high field corn at David McKee’s farm in Rougemont is green but stunted this week, its roots clinging to hard, red clay webbed with half-inch cracks and its leaves curled and twisted like day-old party streamers. This time of year, field corn, grown for animal feed, ethanol and processed foods, like corn syrup and […]
By Mei Mei Chu BEIJING (Reuters) – China passed a law on Friday to better protect farmers’ land rights and support the development of village collectives, aiming to bolster the country’s ailing rural economy and achieve food security, state media reported. While all farmland in China is state-owned, farmers have decades-long land lease rights that […]
DECATUR, Ala. (WHNT) — The decision to move the Morgan County-Decatur farmers market has created tension between the vendors and farmers market board members. The move comes as a new market is being constructed on First Avenue where the market has operated for decades. Traffic stop leads to drug bust in Morgan County In April, […]
BENGALURU, India (AP) — Each year from June to September, a heavy band of rain makes its way from India’s southwest coast to its northeastern borders, quenching farmers’ thirsty fields. India’s monsoon season is arguably the single most important weather phenomenon for the country, and a good monsoon can noticeably boost the nation’s economy and […]
BENGALURU, India (AP) — Each year from June to September, a heavy band of rain makes its way from India’s southwest coast to its northeastern borders, quenching farmers’ thirsty fields. India’s monsoon season is arguably the single most important weather phenomenon for the country, and a good monsoon can noticeably boost the nation’s economy and […]
For two decades, Christopher Gibbs, a row crop and cattle farmer in Shelby county, Ohio, was an ardent Republican party member. He served as chair of his county’s Republican party branch for seven years and when Donald Trump became the party’s presidential candidate in 2016, Gibbs, like more than 80% of Shelby county voters, fell […]
BEIJING (AP) — The Chinese government is taking aim at European farmers instead of German automakers by launching an investigation into European Union pork imports, just days after the EU said it plans to impose provisional tariffs on China-made electric vehicles. The Commerce Ministry didn’t mention the EV tariffs when it announced Monday that it […]