Weeks before a Chinese conglomerate agreed to buy Smithfield Foods Inc. in the largest such takeover of a U.S. business, Missouri lawmakers quietly approved legislation removing a ban on foreign ownership of agricultural land. Full story
A battle between grocers and potato growers has been silently hitting shoppers' pocketbooks, according to a U.S. wholesaler accusing America's spud farmers of driving up prices while spying on farmers with satellites and aircraft fly-overs to enforce strict limits on how many tubers they can grow. Full story
(Reuters) - Chemical maker DuPont <DD.N> said its operating profit would fall more than it expected in the first half of the year as a wet spring in North America and Europe hurt its agriculture business, sending its shares down 1.5 percent. Full story
BEIJING (Reuters) - China, the world's most populous nation, will import more meat and oilseeds over the next decade as consumption outpaces production growth, the OECD said in a joint report with the UN's food agency, adding inflation pressure to global prices. Full story
South Carolina-An extremely unusual and significant interception was made recently by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Full story
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Moving carefully along a row of apple trees, two of Australia's newest agricultural workers check if the fruit is ripe or the soil needs water or fertilizer. Full story
How the agriculture business may perform this summer, with Brian Stutland of Stutland Volatility Group.
William Happer, Princeton University professor, argues that rising carbon dioxide emissions are weakly linked to global warming and could actually increase agricultural productivity.
Investor Jim Rogers tells Larry Kudlow why all the kids who got an MBA have made a terrible mistake and should have gotten agriculture degrees.
A high school coach in Texas faces $73,000 in fines after hosting fried chicken fund-raising lunches which state officials say violated agriculture department regulations. KPRC’s Rachel McNeill reports.
How the U.S. drought is affecting the global agriculture business, and how to play the industry, with Martin Richenhagen, CEO of Agco Corporation.
The penal colony where more than 40 prisoners work on agriculture is pictured on Gorgona island on June 11, 2013.
The penal colony where more than 40 prisoners work on agriculture is pictured on Gorgona island June 11, 2013. Gorgona, the smallest of the Tuscan archipelago that also includes Elba, where Napoleon was incarcerated, is home to a project to rehabilitate hardened criminals through agriculture. The is
Agricultural land flooded by the Elbe river is pictured near the village of Schoenhausen, in the federal state of Saxony Anhalt, June 12, 2013. Tens of thousands of Germans, Hungarians and Czechs were evacuated from their homes on Wednesday as soldiers raced to pile up sandbags to hold back rising w
