Hurricane Melissa has devastated Jamaica, causing severe damage to fishing and farming communities. Prince Davis, a fisherman, discovered his boat and home were destroyed while he was in Nicaragua. In ...

Learn how a new AI tool, Leaf Monitor, developed by researchers at UC Davis, can help farmers optimize and protect their crops.

Agricultural conditions across the Corn Belt are strained in part due to concerns about China’s elimination of soybean purchases and low crop prices, according to a Federal Reserve survey.

Eighty ag literacy coalitions serving 89 Illinois counties were awarded $668,150 in grant dollars, which can be used for materials, training, educational lessons, and activities taking place during ...

Food assistance programs through the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and California’s CalFresh were ...

A federal judge in Boston, Massachusetts gave the United States Department of Agriculture until Monday to come up with a plan to at least partially fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

A listeria outbreak linked to recalled pasta meals has infected more than two dozen people, leading to six deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Here’s what SNAP benefits are, who funds them, the average amount that participants will be missing next month and some food assistance resources.

With no end in sight to the federal shutdown, local and state food resources are bracing for the impending SNAP cuts expected in November.

Beginning Nov. 1, SNAP benefits will not be added to Electronic Benefit Transfer cards due to the pause placed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture on all SNAP benefits while the federal government ...

Are firms adapting to climate change? This paper studies this question by combining geocoded World Bank Enterprise Survey data with spatially granular weather data to estimate temperature response ...