By Theodore Ross Today, Chuck Abbott, FERN’s stalwart chronicler of American agricultural affairs, announced that he would be retiring from his post as lead writer on FERN’s Ag Insider news service.

Since the 1980s, more and more plants have evolved to become immune to the biochemical mechanisms that herbicides leverage to kill them. This herbicidal resistance threatens to decrease ...

Public health officials confirmed six additional cases of bird flu infection of farmworkers, five in California and one in Oregon, raising the U.S. total to 52 this year. The Oregon infection was the ...

Half a century ago, in 1973, I entered the news business as a reporter for a small weekly paper in Missouri. And now, it’s time to leave the party. I will continue my reporting here at Ag Insider ...

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“8” preceding four-digit code = GMO ( “8” is rarely used, if at all, by vendors.) The product must be available to the entire global produce industry and available from multiple growers. Codes will ...

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The two-year decline in commodity prices drove down farm income in the northern Plains this summer, ag bankers said overwhelmingly in a survey by the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank, and they expect ...