PARIS (Reuters) – International tensions over trade could have a positive outcome for agriculture by reviving efforts to reform the most ineffective of policies that distribute hundreds of billions of dollars to farmers each year, the OECD said. Nearly 70% of ... More »
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singapore, the tiny Southeast Asian city-state, is an unlikely place for a farming revolution. With tiered fish farms, vegetable plots atop office buildings and lab-grown shrimp, the island aims to beef up its own food production and rely... More »
KANE COUNTY, Ill. (Reuters) – Lucas Strom, who runs a century-old family farm in rural Illinois, canceled an order to buy a new $71,000 grain storage bin last month – after the seller raised the price 5 percent in a day. The reason: steel prices jumped right a... More »
FILE PHOTO: An early wheat crop in the Central Valley in Davis, California, U.S., May 1, 2017. REUTERS/Hyungwon Kang – File Photo CHICAGO (Reuters) – The new U.S. tax law is poised to drive more control over the nation’s grain supply to farmer-owned cooperativ... More »
Convincing big U.S. dairy owners to buy robots to milk their cows - and reduce the farmhands they employ - used to be a tough sell for Steve Fried. Recently, his job has gotten easier, he says, in part because of President Donald Trump. More »
Workers process lettuce for shipment at the Kernel plant in Los Alcazares, Murcia, southeast Spain February 13, 2017. REUTERS/Francisco Bonilla A shortage of iceberg lettuce is likely to continue into March, Spanish farmers say, because freak weather condition... More »
Officials observe a weed-spraying function on a robot in wheat paddocks near the township of Emerald, in the state of Queensland, Australia, in this handout picture taken on August 9, 2016. Swarm Farm/Handout via REUTERS Parts of Australia’s farming industry a... More »
Former Georgia governor Sonny Perdue. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson Former Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue is U.S. Republican President-elect Donald Trump’s leading candidate to run the U.S. Department of Agriculture, a senior Trump transition team official said on Mond... More »
