Tag: Crop farming
Iowa man charged with making pipe bomb found by young girl
IOWA CITY, Iowa — An Iowa man has been charged with making and placing a pipe bomb that was recently found by a young...
Western drought brings another woe: voracious grasshoppers
BILLINGS, Mont. — A punishing drought in the U.S. West is drying up waterways, sparking wildfires and leaving farmers scrambling for water. Next up:...
Amid pandemic, historic Indiana grain mill saw record year
BRISTOL, Ind. — A grain mill that opened more than 180 years ago in northern Indiana saw a sales boom during the pandemic after...
Iowa’s high court stops lawsuit over farm runoff pollution
DES MOINES, Iowa — A sharply divided Iowa Supreme Court on Friday stopped a lawsuit aimed at reducing the flow of fertilizer and hog...
Chef Molly Yeh’s lockdown life full of recipes, baby firsts
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Somewhere between testing beet and carrot juice, blueberries and mint in search of the precise hues for a four-tiered rainbow...
UN: Famine is imminent in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region
UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. humanitarian chief warned Friday that famine is imminent in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region and the country's north and there...
Maine’s blueberry crop faces climate change peril
PORTLAND, Maine — Maine's beloved wild blueberry fields are home to one of the most important fruit crops in New England, and scientists have...
Police: sugar worker, 86, fatally shoots boss after firing
BELLE GLADE, Fla. — An 86-year-old sugar mill worker with 31 years on the job fatally shot his boss after he was refused another...
Guatemalan lives upturned by failed immigration bids
TIZAMARTE, Guatemala — Alvina Jerónimo Pérez tries to avoid going out. She doesn't want to see neighbors. She's even changed the chip in her...
Drought ravages California’s reservoirs ahead of hot summer
OROVILLE, Calif. — Each year Lake Oroville helps water a quarter of the nation’s crops, sustain endangered salmon beneath its massive earthen dam and...