I left a couple of frames of honey in the box, letting the few remaining bees eat their fill as their days ran out. I found the body of the queen, the blue spot still on her back. The ...

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On Aug. 22, hours before Vice President Kamala Harris took the stage in Chicago at the Democratic National Convention, Donald Trump was claiming that she would abolish Immigration and ...

Time is running out for Congress to agree on the new farm bill, now a year overdue, but a “common sense, reasonable, practical” package is still possible, said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on ...

Some 4,650 financially distressed farmers who owe money on USDA direct and guaranteed loans will share $250 million in payments from the government, said the Agriculture Department on Monday. With the ...

In FERN’s latest story, published with The New York Times, reporter Ted Genoways explains how Donald Trump’s vow to deport millions of immigrants if he is re-elected would decimate the meatpacking ...

Three out of every 10 acres of cotton in Georgia, the No. 2 cotton-growing state in the country, was in poor or very poor condition following Hurricane Helene, said the USDA on Monday. Before the ...

Just five weeks after its first outbreak of bird flu in dairy cattle, California has more affected herds than any other state. According to a USDA database, California has 82 infected herds, an ...

Deeble said bulk tank tests typically bring an initial surge of detections followed by a rapid drop-off. The USDA strategy against bird flu in cattle is to use stepped-up biosecurity measures to ...