Late last year, Louisiana Republican John Kennedy stood on the floor of the US Senate to inveigh against the evils of foreign shrimp and space aliens. Kennedy was standing in front of a ...

The Danish government wants to ban a fast-growing breed known as ‘turbo chickens,’ setting up another clash with the farm ...

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Farm lending has stabilized in the face of low agricultural profit margins, says a quarterly Federal Reserve report on ag banks. Operating loans, to pay day-to-day expenses, have accounted for nearly ...

Big Ag is back on the offensive in Oklahoma, less than a year after voters defeated a bill that would have stripped the state’s residents of their ability to regulate corporate farming. The Oklahoma ...

Verbio North America says it will more than double the capacity of its plant in central Iowa to produce renewable natural gas from corn stover, and it plans to begin production of corn ethanol in the ...

Brown] box crabs aren’t widely known as seafood. Unlike the more popular Dungeness crabs, which live in the shallows and the intertidal, box crabs can venture 600 meters below the ...

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Nathan Hill pushes his skiff off from the shore as the Alaskan dawn breaks through a dense bank of clouds. It’s high tide at the mouth of the Naknek River, in the northeast arm of Bristol Bay, home to ...

In 1970, John E. Franz, a 40-year-old chemist from Springfield, Illinois, hit upon a discovery that would profoundly change agriculture: a chemical that works its way into the leaves of weeds and down ...

On Monday at 5:30 a.m., more than three thousand employees at the JBS beef packing plant in Greeley, Colorado, officially walked off the line. Members of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 ...