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U.S. shoppers are still paying more for organic food, but the price premium is falling as organic options multiply.

Concerns have been raised by those who travel the same roads that livestock haulers have safety exemptions to drive on.

California water officials tromped through snowdrifts in the Sierra Nevada mountains Monday, but a welcome late-winter storm still left the state with less than half the usual snow for this late point in the season.

Food box idea draws criticism from Democrats, advocates

From comfort to high-tech: Food a serious quest at Olympics. And you won't believe how much they're going through.

Tough regulations of well pumping for farmers causing issues

Struggling Florida citrus growers face tough decisions

13 states launch new legal challenge to California egg law

New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra to pay Danone for recall

Growers feel the squeeze as county's citrus industry drops

Some South Texas pecan crops damaged by Hurricane Harvey

One of the largest producers of Georgia's famous Vidalia onions must pay $1.4 million in damages and unpaid overtime owed to hundreds of workers, a federal judge ruled.

The North American Free Trade Agreement is in its 23rd year. But there are growing doubts that it will survive through its 24th.

A Rhode Island grower breaks record with massive pumpkin

Ben & Jerry's, farmworkers reach 'Milk with Dignity' deal

EXCHANGE: Farmer puts future on display in hoop barn

Fifty acres of sunflowers bloomed in northwest Barrington Hills, Ill. in one August week to create a unique carpet of bright yellow.

Officials at the U.S. Department of Agriculture say farmers in Vermont are making better-than-expected progress in reducing the amount of phosphorus flowing into two of four "priority" parts of Lake Champlain.

Investigators have linked three large fish kills this month to livestock manure that had been spread on farm fields in northwestern Ohio, and now they're looking into whether any laws were broken.

Mark Baker doesn't mess around when it comes to teaching volunteer firefighters how to rescue someone trapped in a grain bin. Even when it's a carefully controlled situation.

Rain delays Idaho potato, wheat planting

A budget bill that would eliminate a longtime research center at Iowa State University is headed to Gov. Terry Branstad.

Archer Daniels Midland Company announced the Illinois Industrial Carbon Capture and Storage (ICCS) project, a partnership to safely and permanently store more than 1 million tons of carbon dioxide a year, has begun.

When Paul Betcher's phone rang last year, he had no idea how a rocky patch of land on his farm would turn into a windfall.

As President Donald Trump touts job creation for Americans as a top priority, his son's Virginia winery is seeking permission to hire foreign workers to cultivate its grapes.

Vermont officials, including the three members of the state's congressional delegation, said Monday they are asking federal authorities to clarify their immigration priorities following the arrests last week of three advocates for farmworkers.

The Texas Farms and Ranch Lands Conservation Program, created by the legislature in 2005, was meant to play a vital role in protecting agricultural lands, which are disappearing as a result of the recent population boom. A 2014 Texas A&M study found that the state was losing farm and ranch land at a faster rate than anywhere else in the country.

If President Donald Trump's hardline stance on illegal immigration leads to large-scale deportations, among those hurt could be the U.S. economy.

Officials in Vermont are looking at how to adress farm labor in the state should immigration policies change under the Trump administration.

An Oregon ranch hopes to save 1 billion gallons of water annually.

A California farmer says Donald Trump's campaign vow to deport millions of immigrants who are in the country illegally pushed him into buying more equipment, cutting the number of workers he’ll need during the next harvest. Others in California's farming industry say Trump's tough campaign talk targeting immigrants in the country illegally, including a vast number of farmworkers, spurred them into action, too.

Farmers and ranchers in South Dakota, North Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas hired less help this year.

California is taking its fight against global warming to the farm. The nation's leading agricultural state is now targeting greenhouse gases produced by dairy cows and other livestock.

Officials in Idaho can now issue search warrants to find a pest in potato fields. 

A woman who illegally helped immigrants work at dairy farms in Michigan's Thumb region was sentenced Wednesday to two years and three months in federal prison.

Federal officials on Monday released an ambitious wildfire-fighting and restoration plan to protect a wide swath of sagebrush country in much of the West that supports cattle ranching and is home to an imperiled bird.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved commercial planting of two types of potatoes that are genetically engineered to resist the pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine.

Energy independence has been a goal of every president since Richard Nixon, but it remains elusive.

In the wake of another recall of its ice cream products, Blue Bell has stood firm in its belief that a "robust" testing program it implemented following last year's listeria contamination is helping the company create safe treats.

Blue Bell Creameries is recalling all of its ice cream products that contain cookie dough from an Iowa-based supplier.

A Michigan dairy is conducting a voluntary recall of some of its products due to the failure of equipment used to verify proper pasteurization during processing.

Federal authorities on Friday added seven yellow-faced bee species, Hawaii's only native bees, for protection under the Endangered Species Act, a first for any bees in the United States.

California will begin regulating greenhouse-gas emissions tied to dairy cows and landfills under legislation signed Monday by Gov. Jerry Brown.

Farmworkers in the nation's largest agricultural state will be entitled to the same overtime pay as most other hourly workers under a new law.

If it becomes law, it would put California at the forefront nationally of farm labor pay and mark a victory in the fight to improve farmworkers' rights in a decade's old movement launched by Cesar Chavez.

Utah health officials are warning of a salmonella outbreak linked to raw milk.

California lawmakers have approved legislation to apply the same overtime laws to people who sow and harvest food as those who pack it and work in other industries.

California's state Senate on Monday revived a bill that would make the state the first in the United States to give farmworkers the same overtime pay as people who work in other industries, a last-ditch effort to reverse a nearly 80-year-old practice of exempting field hands from wage rules.

A 55-year-old man has died after being found in a manure pit on his dairy farm in Michigan's Thumb region.