The Latest Breaking News on Agriculture

First U.S. case of bird flu in swine detected in Oregon farm raises concerns about human transmission risk.

A pig at an Oregon farm was found to have bird flu

The Government has announced £5 billion for England’s farming budget over the next two years.

Virus threatening Australian tomato industry contained, but experts warn more infections inevitable

Fire ants ‘not taken seriously’ by federal government, experts say

The various regulatory systems for approving pesticides in operation around the world are crude and flawed. This has long been clear to scientists and it is deeply worrying, as this regulation is supposed to protect people and the environment from harm.

Brazil's environmental agency levied $64 million in fines against 23 meatpacking and their suppliers companies for buying and selling cattle raised illegally on deforested land in the Amazon

Carbon dioxide (CO₂) is naturally removed from the air when it reacts with certain types of rock. We can accelerate this process by crushing suitable rocks and spreading them over agricultural fields. This simple method, known as “enhanced rock weathering”, could vastly increase the rate of CO₂ removal from the…

An Arctic seed vault designed to safeguard the world's plant diversity has received thousands of new samples, marking the largest number of depositors since 2020. The latest deposits, including Palestinian seeds, come amid growing concerns over conflict and climate change threatening food security.

Public health decisions largely lie with farm owners who have reported outbreaks among their cattle or poultry

The Covid-19 and Ebola outbreaks brought into stark relief the harms that can come to humans if we interfere too much with nature, placing ourselves in contact with animals carrying unknown pathogens.