farming

Snowstorms on the Eastern Seaboard this week could mean shortages and higher prices for chicken. At least a dozen poultry houses suffered collapsed roofs due to heavy snow, and further losses are expected.

Shares of Travelers Cos. (TRV) shot up more than 4 percent in pre-market action after the insurance giant Thursday reported a much higher third quarter profit, earning $935 million, or $1.65 a share. Per-share earnings far exceeded a consensus estimate of $1.30 a share, according to a poll of 15...

As Deere & Co's reported profits fell by 27 percent in the third quarter, the farm machinery manufacturer warned that sales in the current quarter would fall about a third from the previous year. Still, the company bested analyst estimates and shares surged in pre-market trading. For the three...

I swore off pork raised in large commercial farms after reading Nicholas Kristof's deep evaluation of the use of prophylactic antibiotics in animal feed, and how it's causing an explosion of MRSA, a flesh-eating bacterial infection, in pig farm workers and the people who live nearby those factory...

A university published a study a few weeks ago with a fascinating result. Probably because that university is in Newcastle, England, and the subject was dairy farming, it received little notice in North America. Researchers asked 516 British dairy farmers how they treated their cows. They found...

Drought conditions in California's Central Valley could lead to food shortages and higher grocery prices nationwide.Economists predict that the drought could cost 80,000 jobs and $2 billion in lost revenue. Empty reservoirs could lead many farmers to be cut off from their water sources sometime...

When I was in business school in 1999 and 2000, the entrepreneurial program was packed with young capitalists trying to make money online. Everything ended in "dotcom" (or, if you were cool, "dotnet.") If we were to have been faced with a business plan about farming in the famously launchity...

I'm an eager member of a group in Portland called the "urban homesteaders." We meet to discuss ways to utilize our assets better; gardening, preserving, buying from local farmers and generally finding ways to get off the grid a bit, while still living in the city. One of the group's founders is...

You might think all the stories left to tell in this genre are about quaint family farms in the mid-West being overrun by giant corporations, but the latest salvo comes from industrial Los Angeles. Two years ago, a community garden was razed to make room for a warehouse for the clothing retailer...