Big Farms Reap Two Harvests With Subsidies a Bumper Crop
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As subsidies increase despite higher incomes for big farms, some say that the subsidy system has never made less sense.
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Across the globe, huge demand for biofuels has created tension between using land to produce fuel and using it for food.
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Oilseed-processing and rising demand for feed grains offset declining margins in the food-processing companyâs  ethanol business.
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Gordon Wassenaar has his eye  on a $300,000 combine harvester to replace the 1990 model he  repairs each winter in the workshop on his farm. And he just  bought more land to add to his 1,600-acre spread.
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In the face of new competition, primarily from China, produce farmers have joined forces for the first time.
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The latest food-contamination case raises the stakes for growers and public officials.
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By Greg Edwards, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va.  Jun. 26--Every few years, the gaze of Virginia farmers falls beyond the edges of their fields toward Washington, where lawmakers are crafting another farm bill.
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By Erin Sherbert, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Jun. 8--East Contra Costa farmers soon will be able to operate larger roadside stands as well as farm markets, giving them more opportunities to sell their fruits and vegetables.
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LOBOS, Argentina  - Every year, rancher Gaston Caset leaves a little less space for cattle on his farm in Argentina's fertile pampas plains, planting more lucrative wheat and soybeans instead.
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Latin America&#39;s agricultural giant won a pair of trade victories against farm subsidies for rich countries after the World Trade Organization agreed that Brazilian farmers have been hurt by government assistance for US cotton farmers and European Union
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Poor farmersâ simple methods have helped lead to millions of newly tree-covered acres in a dust-choked region.
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By Katy Guest  In Nicaragua this summer, they had much the same problem with the bean harvest as we did in Britain. As the sun scorched the fields and prayed-for rain failed to fall, tender legume crops failed. In Britain, we feared that Bird's Eye might have to put up its prices.
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Bob Fuchigami was 12 years old when he and his family were told to leave their 20-acre farm in northern California. The peach trees that his immigrant parents had planted were about to yield their first big crop.
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In the face of new competition primarily from China, produce farmers have joined forces for the first time.
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Farm bloc lawmakers yesterday offered the U.S. fruit and vegetable industry $1.8 billion in new federal grants over the next five years as part of a farm bill that would leave in place far larger subsidies for grain, cotton and dairy producers.
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Science & environment: Environmental and social impact of producing the crops may be greater than originally thought
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U.S. farmers will reap their largest  corn, soybean and cotton crops ever, with ideal weather in the  Midwest boosting corn to 11.613 billion bushels and soybeans to  3.11 billion bushels while cotton will hit 21.5 million bales  despite hurricane damage in the Southeast, the government  forecast on Tuesday.