As the H5N1 bird flu virus continues to spread among animals, the discovery of infected rats in Riverside County provides another example of the virus' penchant for surprise.

Black Farmers Index is a list of Black farmers and growers across the country. It began as a solutions-based journalism project by Ark Republic in April 2020, in the form of a list of Black farmers ...

Since the first farmers tilled the soil more than 10,000 years ago, the plow has been the essential tool of human survival.

The USDA has suspended a college scholarship program for students from rural and underserved backgrounds who attend HBCUs.

Among today’s still-legal-to-buy plants that the council is concerned about are Japanese and Chinese wisterias, Norway maple, amur maple, Japanese maple, English ivy, Japanese spirea, yellow flag iris ...

Virginia General Assembly advancing bills that deal with baby mammals, accessible playgrounds and forced child labor ...

This article was reprinted with permission from Virginia Mercury. Senate Bill 1125: Prohibiting premature separation and hybridization of mammalian wildlife. Sen. Jennifer Boyskos ...

It remains to be seen if Congress can get a farm bill across the finish line in 2025. U.S. Congressman Randy Feenstra of Iowa ...

The new administration, along with DOGE and Musk, created a federal buyout program that offered government employees the ...

Jeannie Klein-Gordon spent more than 11 years getting to a permanent position with the United States Department of ...

The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship and the U.S. Department of Agriculture say bird flu or Highly ...

Eggs are being confiscated at the U.S. border with Mexico amid a bird flu outbreak that has depleted chicken populations.