Environment
As many as 2,000 French farmers have taken to the streets of Clermont Ferrand in protest over new legislation to tax the use of nitrogen fertiliser.
Rural Life
The UN's FAO has warned that the number of crop-eating locusts in east Africa could explode 400-fold by June 2020.
A Russian passenger jet has made an emergency landing in a field of maize in Russia after getting into difficulty shortly after lift off.
Agri-Business
Flood waters coming from rain and melting snow are causing havoc in some US states and have resulted in an estimated $3 billion in damages.
Get out of Vienna and into the alpine valleys of Austria and it's likely you'll not be far from one of the country's reigning milk queens.
People told Eis Greissler founder Georg Blochberger his idea to turn summer milk from his 50 cows into ice cream would never work.
Agri Politics
Thousands of South Africans have pledged to wear black today (Monday) in an act of defiance against the recent spate of violent farm murders.
Horsemeat has been detected in two samples of ground meat in the US by researchers at Chapman University.
Harvest season is in full swing at the moment, including in the US where the LaRosh family is harvesting wheat.
New Zealand farmer Harry Meijer has a unique way of going to work; he uses a zipline to go from his house to his milking sheds.
Over the past week French farmers have blockaded roads, set pyres of tyres on fire and set pigs lose in supermarkets in protest of the low prices they are receiving for their produce.
Global beef production must rise by 43% to meet the growing demand from consumers, according to Elanco
World cereal production will be at record levels this year, according to the latest indications.
We cannot rely on an input intensive farming model to increase production according to FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva
Reports in the business world today are hinting at the creation of a global fertiliser giant with the potential merger of major players in the fertilier market Norway's Yara and Chicago-based CF Industries.
While the latest food price index from the UN Food & Agriculture Organisation for August fell for the fifth consecutive month however, meat prices continued their upwards trajectory.
The consumer must come first and a zero tolerance attitude are two key recommendations of the UK’s long-awaited report on the horsemeat scandal.
Tillage
The latest global crop update from the HGCA provides an overview of both plantings and harvest around the world.
