The farm bill the Senate is considering this week would cut some farm subsidies but also expand government-subsidized crop insurance, a safety net used by many farmers in case of bad weather or lost revenue. Full story
Warm, sunny weather has allowed northern and central Indiana farmers to make quick progress planting their corn crop despite lingering wet conditions in the state's southern counties. Full story
SAN MATEO, Calif. — The word "drone" tends to conjure up images of planes that kill terrorists or of creepy surveillance tools. Full story
A Goldman Sachs analyst downgraded shares of Deere & Co. on Friday, saying crop prices and farm equipment sales will decline significantly in 2013. Full story
Two Wisconsin congressmen are proposing changes to the nation's crop insurance program that they say will save the federal government $11 billion over the next 10 years. Full story
DALLAS (Reuters) - Billie Sol Estes, a flamboyant Texan who was convicted of bilking millions of dollars from a federal crop subsidy program, died on Tuesday at age 88, police said. Full story
The USDA is unveiling its first, hard estimates of the crop year ahead, with CNBC's Jane Wells.
At least 63 people have died in Kenya where flooding has left more than 34,000 people displaced and thousands of crops have been destroyed. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.
With so much concern over what's in our food and where it comes from, seed savers say they're taking back the power to feed themselves, one backyard crop at a time. NBC’s Diana Alvear reports.
CNBC's Jane Wells explain why some people are optimistic about the return of "normal" crop prices this year.
The freeze-and-thaw cycle has created a bumper crop of giant icicles in Saskatoon, Canada where workers are using chainsaws to cut them down because of the safety hazard. Some of the larger icicles even have their own Twitter accounts.
A farmer who sold his wheat crop to the government for export collects his earnings as Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi watches during a festival marking wheat harvest day at Borg El Arab, west of the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, 230 km north of Cairo, May 15, 2013. Egypt's supply minister sa
Labourers sift wheat crop at a wholesale grain market in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh April 17, 2013. REUTERS/Ajay Verma
Crop scouts calculate yields in a Kansas wheat field on the first day of their tour of the U.S. Plains hard red winter wheat region in Central Kansas, May 3, 2011. REUTERS/Mark Weinraub
