The Congressional staffer moved up in their chair and looked up from the notepad with a quizzical expression. These farmers ...

Farm to School and Farm to Early Care initiatives focus on three main tenets: local purchasing, gardening, and food and ...

Coming October 2 from the Campaign for Family Farms and the Environment, a new four-part podcast series about factory farms, and the farmers and rural organizers fighting to end them: How to Fight a ...

ELIZABETH TANG Yin-ngor is an experienced general on the protest front: the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions chief executive has been a full-time unionist for the past 15 years. But her WTO ...

Michael Andreas, 49, on leave as executive vice president of ADM; Terrance Wilson, 60, retired head of ADM's corn-processing unit; and former ADM biochemist Mark Whitacre, 41 have been convicted by a ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Opponents of global financial powers threatened Tuesday to shut down World Bank and International Monetary Fund meetings next month, but pledged to avoid the violence that paralyzed ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 23 (Reuters) - Farmland Industries said on Thursday it plans to sell its Dubuque, Iowa, pork processing plant to Smithfield Foods Inc. , the largest U.S. pork producer. The all ...

Cargill Inc. said Thursday it has agreed to sell its North Star Steel unit, including its St. Paul steel mill that employs 430 workers, to Gerdau Ameristeel Corp. of Canada in a deal valued at ...

The Minnesota Green Chemistry Forum is committed to fostering a common understanding among businesses, government, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and academia to advance green chemistry ...

NAIROBI, Kenya, January 27, 2003 (ENS) - African countries are phasing out lead gasoline in increasing numbers because of the hazards it poses to human health and the environment. Around 90 percent of ...

WELLINGTON, April 6 (AFP) -- A small New Zealand political party Tuesday exposed a fish farm company developing genetically engineered salmon which grow faster and bigger than other salmon. But the ...

TOKYO, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Concerns are growing among Japanese importers over talk that a cargo of U.S. corn was rejected because it contained StarLink, a bio-engineered variety not approved for human ...