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Farmers already scrambling to find workers in California — the leading U.S. grower of fruits, vegetables and nuts — fear an even greater labor shortage under President Barack Obama’s executive action to block some 5 million people from deportation.

Move over farmers’ markets. More than 300 food hubs around the country are also providing small farms another outlet to sell locally raised food to consumers.

State Sen. Brian Munzlinger announced legislation Monday that would create tax incentives for Missouri landowners to work with beginning farmers, an effort he says could help attract a younger generation to agriculture.

Adopted in May 2012, the ordinance is intended to promote agribusiness in Hancock County while preserving the quality and character of the county’s neighboring uses, the ordinance reads.

The city of Sioux Falls, S.D., plans to spend more than $1 million to pay farmers to keep their cattle out of the Big Sioux River and its tributaries.

Indiana and other Midwestern corn and soybean farmers are being accused of threatening the survival of monarch butterflies.

Despite some legal hiccups, researchers had good success growing the crop.

Faced with the prospect of defeat that would change how it enforces the Clean Water Act (CWA) on animal operations, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has decided to drop an appeal of a lower court decision, Alt v. EPA.

Crops were damaged across much of southern and eastern Idaho when a series of ill-timed storms caused grain to sprout before it could be harvested and some crops to mold in the fields.

New Gates Foundation leader shares research wins