Tag: Agriculture

Georgia officials agree to spend $100 million on Hurricane Helene aid for farms and forestry

ATLANTA -- Georgia's state government is diverting $100 million to spend on loans to farmers and cleanup after Hurricane Helene.The Georgia State Financing...

McDonald's E. coli case count rises as federal officials inspect an onion grower

WASHINGTON -- Federal officials on Wednesday reported more cases of E. coli poisoning among people who ate at McDonald’s, as government investigators seeking...

Brazil fines meatpacking companies, including giant JBS, for buying illegally raised cattle

BRASILIA, Brazil -- Brazil's environmental agency has levied $64 million in fines against 23 meatpacking companies and their suppliers for buying and selling...

Autonomous tech is coming to farming. What will it mean for crops and workers who harvest them?

HOMESTEAD, Fla. -- Jeremy Ford hates wasting water.As a mist of rain sprinkled the fields around him in Homestead, Florida, Ford bemoaned how...

Midwest chicken farmers struggle to feed flocks after sudden closure of processor

CHARLES CITY, Iowa -- Dozens of farmers in Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin are scrambling to feed their flocks after a struggling organic chicken...

Aging farmers face extreme temperatures as they struggle to maintain Japan's rice crop

KAMIMOMI, Japan -- In the remote village of Kamimomi in Japan’s western Okayama prefecture, a small group of rice farmers began their most...