USDA sent &#36;1.1B to deceased farmers
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The Agriculture Department sent $1.1 billion in farm payments to more than 170,000 dead people over a seven-year period, congressional investigators say.
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U.S. Agriculture Department tests confirmed the spread of soybean rust, a yield-slashing fungus, in three more fields in Louisiana, a university scientist familiar with USDA activities told Reuters on Tuesday.
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Diagnosticians at USDA&#39;s National Plant Germplasm and Biotechnology Laboratory in Beltsville, Md., have confirmed the presence of Phakopsora pachyrhizi, or soybean rust, today on soybean leaf samples collected from areas in Louisiana and one location in
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By NATE DEGRAFF  Lawns are browning. Farm fields are drying out. This month is one of the driest Mays on record.  But Guilford County is not in serious drought. Yet.
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Wheat is steadily being replaced by corn as the crop of choice for American farmers.
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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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By Susan Salisbury, The Palm Beach Post, Fla.  Jun. 2--Two weather-related disasters have made agricultural producers in  25 Florida counties eligible for low-interest loans, the U.S. Department of  Agriculture's Farm Service Agency said Friday.
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By John Dobberstein, Tulsa World, Okla.  Sep. 6--Oklahoma will get about $6 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to help cattle ranchers hurt by this year's drought.
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PRAIRIE CITY, Iowa  - 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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By Scott Waltman, American News, Aberdeen, S.D.  Feb. 12--The number of farms in South Dakota last year dropped by 100 compared to 2005, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture numbers.
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Fonterra Cooperative Group Ltd., the world&#39;s biggest dairy exporter, said its A$1.34 billion ($1.01 billion) offer for the rest of National Foods Ltd.
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By Frank Norton, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Mar. 14--More than $1.3 million from a legal settlement with a pork producer will pay to clean agricultural waste and protect rivers and wildlife in Eastern North Carolina, the state Attorney General's Office announced Tuesday.
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By Josh Rabe, The Daily Oklahoman  Dec. 9--ALTUS -- State agriculture officials helped collect more than 62,000 pounds of pesticides this week in an effort to get rid of old, unwanted chemicals.
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ROME, Feb 18 (IPS) - The sharp increase in the international prices of  basic food is hitting the poorest rural communities, according to  groups representing millions of small farmers.
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_U.S. deaths as of Jan. 31, 2007: 3,080.
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About 1.8 million federal employees would receive a 1.7 percent increase in their basic pay and a 0.5 percent average increase in their locality pay next year under a plan that President Bush sent to Congress yesterday, administration officials said.
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The Agriculture Department offered &#36;2 million Thursday to help private land owners in four Western states protect the habitat of the sage grouse.