Scientists are using CRISPR to fast-track the domestication of a wild fruit. For roughly 10,000 years, farming communities ...

Foods most likely to contain pesticides, according to FDA and USDA data. The Dirty Dozen is a good indicator meant to alert ...

The rolling hills of central Ohio make the drive to Lynd Fruit Farm a scenic one: Freshly planted fields and pastures dotted with cows, horses and sheep blur by as cars coast along country roads.

A new initiative is aiming to "ensure rural America is prosperous and healthy again" — including lowering production costs for farmers, bringing down the cost of food, and making healthy, natural food ...

House Agriculture Chair G.T. Thompson and others want Trump officials to include specialty crop producers in next week’s farm aid package.

The Specialty Crop Farm Bill Alliance today applauded the bipartisan leadership of the Congressional Specialty Crop Caucus ...

Some of Orange County has been placed under a quarantine due to an invasive fruit fly species, according to the California Department of Food and Agriculture, which told residents in affected areas to ...

Renaissance paintings, medieval archives, cloistered orchards—how one Italian scientist is uncovering secrets that could help combat a growing agricultural crisis A selection of the bounty from ...

WASHINGTON — For more than a decade, Greg Rinehart’s farm 55 miles northwest of Des Moines was like many others in Iowa, populated by endless rows of corn and soybeans and a barn full of hogs — ...

Agriculture officials sounded that alarm on Friday after two Queensland fruit flies were found in Ventura County, marking at least the third discovery of invasive and destructive fruit flies in the ...