Agriculture
Floods breach levees as evacuations continue in flood-hit Central Queensland
Floodwaters have overwhelmed parts of a levee bank built to protect the town of Thargomindah in Queensland’s southwest, forcing authorities ...
DOGE’s Cuts at the USDA Could Cause US Grocery Prices to Rise and Invasive Species to Spread
Navigating the workforce cuts has “been absolute chaos,” says Armando Rosario-Lebrón, a vice president of the National Association of Agriculture ...
China to slap retaliatory tariffs on some Canadian products
Containers at the Port of Vancouver in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Feb. 28, 2025. Ethan Cairns/Bloomberg via Getty Images China ...
Why Is Chocolate So Expensive Right Now?
This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Just four West African countries are ...
Beyond Meat Says Being Attacked Has Just Made It Stronger
Do you think they’re still doing a good job? I do. I think they’ve changed the narrative. I think they’ve ...
Chocolate Has a Sustainability Problem. Science Thinks It’s Found the Answer
Elsewhere, Mars is looking to get to the literal root of the problem by improving the resilience of the all-important ...
What Trump mass deportation plan would mean for immigrants and economy
President-Elect Donald J. Trump won the White House based partly on his promises to rein in immigration, with targeted policies ...
South Australian dairy producer Beston Global Food Company goes into voluntary administration
South Australian dairy producer Beston Global Food Company said it had experienced “a perfect storm of adverse events” prompting it ...
Lawsuit Attacks Florida’s Lab-Grown Meat Ban as Unconstitutional
Florida’s ban on cultivated meat is being challenged in federal court in a lawsuit that was filed yesterday. The case ...
Thousands of Aussie farms in ‘ingestion zone’ under proposed nuclear plan threatening food production
The federal government has claimed that under an opposition-proposed nuclear plan, more than 11,000 farms would fall within a nuclear ...
