Rice growers who lost sales after genetically modified rice seed mistakenly entered the U.S. market five years ago have until Monday to sign on to a $750 million settlement proposed by the company blamed for the problem.
Farms have been becoming more like factories for decades. Now, a local nonprofit group wants to take a further step in the automation of agriculture.
Many categories of exports important to Wichita and Kansas continue to show strong gains through September, the latest month that figures are available, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
SINGAPORE — Wheat is heading for the biggest slump in three years as the second-largest harvest on record swells stockpiles, easing shortages that drove global food costs to an all-time high.
WASHINGTON — Being stuck for hours on a stuffy, stinky plane at the airport was supposed to be a thing of the past, thanks to the government's threat of huge fines against the airlines.
CREVE COEUR, Mo. —Monsanto Co., whose genetically modified corn and soybeans have reshaped America's heartland and rallied a nation of fast-food foes, wants to revolutionize the produce aisle.
The emerging 2012 winter wheat crop appears to be getting off to a solid start in Kansas after a year of drought that decimated many crops that came before it.
Farm loan delinquencies remain low in Kansas as fall harvest wraps up, but it is too early to know what impact the drought will have on loan repayments, a top Farm Service Agency loan official said Thursday.
WASHINGTON — When regulators come knocking at the Bank of Newman Grove, Neb., inquiring about loan risks, Chairman Jeffrey Gerhart has a "stress test" ready to show how his portfolio would fare if rural land prices dropped 25 percent. Or 50 percent. Or 75 percent.
DES MOINES, Iowa — U.S. farmers on Thursday celebrated the approval of free trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama, saying the pacts will increase demand for their products, though American consumers shouldn't see a drastic increase in overall food prices.
The latest government forecast of the size of the Kansas fall harvest paints an even more dismal picture than last month's estimate.
Farm-state congressmen and their tractor-driving constituents contend federal bureaucrats are on the verge of saddling them with a new, costly and harebrained government regulation.
ST. LOUIS — Monsanto Co. reported a fiscal fourth-quarter loss that beat Wall Street expectations on Wednesday and said that it must restate the last two years' earnings because of a federal investigation into its herbicide sales.
MINNEAPOLIS — In southern Minnesota's hog country, homes are seldom locked. But the barns are being bolted tight, guarded by surveillance cameras, motion detectors and alarms.
CHICAGO — The U.S. wheat harvest will be 9 percent smaller than last year, the government said Friday, after heavy rains delayed planting of spring crops in the northern Great Plains and hot weather in July and August reduced yields.
TOPEKA — Kansas needs to invest hundreds of millions of dollars more in its beef, dairy and pork industries in order to give the state a larger share of U.S. animal agriculture production, Gov. Sam Brownback said.
WASHINGTON — Americans' wealth declined this spring for the first time in a year, as stocks and home values fell.
Months of blistering heat and drought is forecast to cut the south-central Kansas corn harvest almost 40 percent below last year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
GREENWOOD COUNTY — In the quiet heart of the Flint Hills, Koch Agriculture's Matador Cattle Co. is trying to turn American beef Japanese.
Kansas farmers have begun preparing their fields to plant winter wheat, amid concern that the long drought has left the ground too dry to get the 2012 crop off to a good start this fall.
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