Agriculture

Tobacco is a drought resistant plant. But this year, the weather has been anything but dry in major tobacco growing states like Kentucky, North Carolina and Georgia.

In an effort to get it passed, some in Congress want to split the food-stamps part of the bill from the farm subsidy part.

Tucked into the farm bill is language that would add means testing to the federally subsidized crop insurance program.

An orange grower in Florida is not exactly celebrating high orange prices.

Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack hopes organic farming will help financially strapped small-scale farmers.

The Supreme Court ruling protects a company that controls 90 percent of the expanding soybean production in the U.S. and Latin America; what has followed from Monsanto’s dominance?

The vote, which will restrict the use of certain types of pesticides for two years unless decisive new information becomes available, is an effort to protect the dwindling honeybee population.

As President Obama meets with Congress today to discuss immigration policy, the U.S. agriculture industry looks on with hopes for reform.

Nurseries spend a lot of effort moving potted plants and trees from one place to another. Robots may replace low-paying, seasonal, grueling work.