What does it mean to get big or get out? As CAFOs began to take over livestock production in the U.S. through the 1990s, the ...

Wall Street Journal | Op-Ed | By HOLMAN W. JENKINS JR. If mankind rejects the benefits of gene splicing, there will be a better reason than one company's public relations miscues. Monsanto was on a ...

Sustainable forest management builds up the quality, quantity and diversity of the forest. Plans are site-specific, but all follow the broad practice of removing the smaller, poorer-quality trees and ...

Saskatchewan farmer battles agro-chemical giant: Percy Schmeiser is being sued for having patented canola seeds growing on his land. He says he's done nothing wrong, and is fighting back Regina -- ...

PHOENIX, Arizona, November 12, 2002 (ENS) - Some of the Phoenix area's poorest neighborhoods also have the region's highest concentration of toxic hazards, conclude two new studies by researchers at ...

As summer yields to fall, rural communities across the West continue to purge skinny, fire-prone trees from overcrowded forests and remove potentially hazardous brush from around homes. But with ...

Water is one of the main keys to sustainable development, as it is essential to sustain life on our planet and ensure health and socioeconomic progress of our societies, while respecting the ...

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With the loss of the family farm, warns author Sharon Butala, we are also losing nature's diversity -- and risking our souls My memories of drives in the country when I was a child in the 1940s and ...

Michael Andreas, 49, on leave as executive vice president of ADM; Terrance Wilson, 60, retired head of ADM's corn-processing unit; and former ADM biochemist Mark Whitacre, 41 have been convicted by a ...

Wichita, KS - U.S. AgBank (AgBank), headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, announced that it opposes the acquisition of the Omaha, Nebraska, based Farm Credit Services of America (FCS of America) by ...