The Republican budget passed earlier this month took a chainsaw to several foundational pillars that prop up the U.S. food ...

The U.S. cattle herd is the smallest it's been in 70 years. In June, the price of ground beef rose over $6, the highest since ...

THE HINDU / August 21, 1998 / Pg. 10, Col. D. / By Chennai "Historic evidence shows that Basmati is a distinctive cultivar developed by the farmers of India and Pakistan at least 250 years ago, and ...

The failure of the WTO Ministerial meeting in Seattle was a historic watershed. For example, it has demonstrated that globalisation is not an inevitable phenomena which must be accepted at all costs ...

In what has been described as its most important vote this year, the U.S. Congress will soon decide whether to provide permanent normal trade relations to China. A vote is required because, after 14 ...

By David Awbrey Senator has conspired against the very people who have voted for him all these years Suppose a few years ago, then-House Agriculture Chairman Rep. Pat Roberts and corporate lobbyists ...

More than six years after Mexican trucking companies had expected full access to U.S. roads, change is coming, according to the acting transportation secretary, Maria Cino. She said that by the end of ...

New York Times / March 3, 1999 / By DAVID BARBOZA CHICAGO--Robert Shapiro, the chief executive of Monsanto Co., occupies a modest cubicle on the ninth floor of the Merchandise Mart in downtown Chicago ...

NEW YORK - The New York Siting Board approved independent power producer Mirant Corp.'s application to build a large power plant along the Hudson River north of New York City, the board said in a ...

Springfield, Illinois - Representatives of an estimated 600 individuals, who formed a diverse alliance of 180 groups, recently called for an investigation into allegations that American Farm bureau ...

OTC (COMTEX Newswire) / Sat, Dec 23, 2000 GENEVA, Switzerland, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- World Health Organization medical experts said Friday the global agency is concerned the mad cow disease and its fatal ...

MUNICH -- A global coalition of environmental groups is, accroding to this story, celebrating a major victory in their fight against what they call 'biopiracy'. Last week, the European Patent Office ...