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China's surging inflation should rise again this month after flooding damaged crops and pushed up food costs, the government said Wednesday.

Peter Waziweyi is bouncing around the lush countryside of Mozambique in his 30-year-old truck, visiting his customers' maize fields and relishing the sight of their rich, ripening crops.

A federal judge has revoked the government's approval of genetically altered sugar beets until regulators complete a more thorough review of how the crops affect organic food.

A federal judge has revoked the government's approval of genetically altered sugar beets until regulators complete a more thorough review of how the scientifically engineered crops affect organic food.

(Texas A&M AgriLife Communications) In the most foreign of countries, following a misunderstood industry, and in the middle of war, two Americans met recently and realized they shared a dream: Helping farmers patch up their land, produce better crops and deliver them safely to hungry people.

Result: Howard G. Buffett Foundation puts $1.5 million at Texas A&M's Borlaug Institute to study conflict resolution and agriculture.

First country: Afghanistan.

Foreign investment is trickling into Mozambique's agricultural sector. But instead of growing crops for food, companies are planting jatropha for biof ...

WIMER, Ore. — Vern and Gianaclis Caldwell do a lot of the typical things that make a small farm self-sufficient.

U.S. farmers planted their fewest cotton acres since 1983 — just over 9 million — amid a continued swapping of acres for better priced and less-costly-to-produce crops such as corn and soybeans.