Tag: Agriculture
Black and other minority farmers are getting $2 billion from USDA after years of discrimination
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- The Biden administration has doled out more than $2 billion in direct payments for Black and other minority farmers discriminated...
President Milei renews his vow to scrap export taxes as Argentina's powerful farmers get impatient
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- Addressing crowds of struggling farmers in flat caps and home-knit sweaters who helped vault him to power but have...
California date palm ranches reap not only fruit, but a permit to host weddings and quinceañeras
COACHELLA, Calif. -- Claudia Lua Alvarado has staked her future on the rows of towering date palms behind the home where she lives...
Wind power can be a major source of tax revenue, but officials struggle to get communities on board
PIPER CITY, Ill. -- In Scott Saffer's science classroom, kids bake cookies in a decked-out kitchen, care for fish, turtles and a snake,...
Farmers in Africa say their soil is dying and chemical fertilizers are in part to blame
NAIROBI, Kenya -- When Benson Wanjala started farming in his western Kenya village two and a half decades ago, his 10-acre farm could...
Climate change imperils drought-stricken Morocco’s cereal farmers and its food supply
KENITRA, Morocco -- Golden fields of wheat no longer produce the bounty they once did in Morocco. A six-year drought has imperiled the...