The Latest Breaking News on Agriculture

Government introduced restrictions last year in attempt to curb spread of bird flu

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers, as they work on the 2023 farm bill, are staking out positions on nutrition and food stamps — the Agriculture Department’s biggest single program and a perennial source of contention.

France’s government is looking for a way around an impending ban imposed by its own health watchdog on the insecticide phosphine so that it can carry on exporting wheat to North Africa.

Government aid programs, set up to favor corporate farms, are out of reach to those who supply farmers markets and eateries

An inquiry launched after 12 farm workers died on the job in one year has found some farmers believe they're not subject to work health and safety regulations.

After 12 deaths in as many months, a WorkSafe investigation into Western Australia's agricultural sector finds that workplace fatalities are the highest of any industry.

Australia on Tuesday reaffirmed its commitment to improving agriculture ties with China after a ministerial meeting, as Canberra cheered progress made toward restoring trade in barley amid a thawing in diplomatic relations.

The Anti-Corruption Organization of Thailand (ACT) has released a report on graft cases involving politicians over the past ten years in which the rice-pledging scheme caused the most financial damage at 130 billion baht.

Spurred by environmental and health concerns, Mexico has stopped approving modified cotton seeds which depend on the pesticide glyphosate.

"What difference is there for document storage as opposed to caravans, tractors or anything else for that matter?"

VIJAYAWADA: All India Agriculture and Rural Labour Association (AIARLA) demanded that the centre should take back the anti-rural labour changes being brought in NREGA. The association had also deplored the silence of the mainstream political parties in the state-YSRCP, TDP and Janasena about the proposed changes in the Act. Rural…