Kenya’s Farm to Feed Raises $1.5 Million to Tackle Food Waste, Boost Farmer Incomes

Advertisements Kenyan agritech startup Farm to Feed has raised $1.5 million in seed funding to scale its operations, expand into new markets, and strengthen its technology platform to cut food waste and boost farmer earnings. The round includes...

Maharashtra Minister Girish Mahajan Inspects Crop Damage In Nashik's Dindori, Assures Aid To Farmers

Maharashtra Minister Girish Mahajan Inspects Crop Damage In Nashik's Dindori, Assures Aid To Farmers | Sourced Nashik: Maharashtra Water Resources Minister Girish Mahajan visited the Janori and Korte areas of Dindori tehsil on Monday morning to...

Corn and soybean farmers often apply fertilizer in November. Experts say timing is key

With the corn and soybean harvest winding down in Iowa, many farmers are turning their attention to fertilizer. Roughly 25% to 50% of the total commercial nitrogen applied to fields across the state occurs in the fall, according to a survey led by...

Hurricane Melissa devastates Jamaica’s largest egg farm

Crop and livestock losses in St. Elizabeth raise fears of food shortage Designed to withstand 150-mph winds, the egg farm Osbourne Brumley built with his life savings in western Jamaica's St. Elizabeth parish proved no match for Category 5...

Gratitude and hope: harvest wraps up, work for next crop begins

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Goehring working on harvest, reflects on the year

Doug Goehring, North Dakota Agriculture Commissioner, and a farmer with his son, Dustin, near Menoken, N.D., is still slogging through muddy fields, trying to cut soybeans. It is slow going, especially with rain falling every couple of days and...

Family farm cultivates fields of flowers for Dia de los Muertos in Sacramento

Communities across Northern California celebrated Dia de los Muertos over the weekend.Dia de los Muertos is an annual holiday, with deep roots in Mexico, when people honor their loved ones. One farmer has been selling flowers at the Midtown...

Maryland Farmers Offered $1,000/Acre Bonus To Plant Trees Along Waterways

ANNAPOLIS, Md. – The Maryland Department of Agriculture is excited to announce that the 2025-2026 enrollment period for its popular Conservation Buffer Initiative will run from November 1st, 2025 through April 30, 2026. To help Maryland meet its...

Christmas harvest begins in Germany, where some say decorating trees began

SUNDERN, Germany (AP) — Germany ‘s growers have started to cut their Christmas trees in anticipation of a tradition that’s around 500 years old. Germans have been celebrating Christmas with decorated trees for centuries. In the 19th century the...

GLOBALink | Young Pakistanis cultivate farming skills in SW China for better harvest at home

A growing number of young Pakistani students are pursuing agricultural studies at Southwest University in China's Chongqing. Meet Shareef Gul, who has learned advanced techniques in potato breeding, propagation, and disease prevention there....

Bumper harvest: President directs Finance Ministry to release funds to purchase farm produce - Ayariga hints

The President has directed the Ministry of Finance to make money available to the National Food Buffer Stock Company to buy bumper produce from farmers across the country, the Majority Leader, Mahama Ayariga, has stated. He informed the House that...

NAFCO begins purchase of excess staple foods from farmers - Cabinet approves GH¢100 million

The National Food Buffer Stock Company (NAFCO) has begun purchasing key staple foods such as rice, maize and gari from farmers in response to their appeals for market access amid high yields and limited storage capacity. So far, 60,000 bags of...

Suspected herdsmen set ablaze rice farm in Benue, destroy harvest worth millions

A large rice farm belonging to a local farmer, Mr. Ugbakayaa, was reportedly set ablaze on Sunday afternoon, November 2, 2025, by suspected Fulani herdsmen at Tse Orbiam along the Naka–Makurdi road in Gwer West Local Government Area of Benue...

Ocean Harvesting Technologies appoints new COO

Sweden’s Ocean Harvesting Technologies has appointed Cody Bradway as the new Chief Operating Officer (COO), bringing experience from the marine, offshore, and renewable energy sectors to the Gothenburg-based wave energy developer....

West Bank: Israeli occupation forces are blocking access of farmers to their olive orchards for harvest north of the town of Salfit

Smuggling crackdown leaves hungry border guards stealing from farms instead of taking bribes

Soldiers of the 25th Brigade of North Korea’s border guard based in Ryanggang province have gone on a rampage of crop theft this harvest season, leaving their ill-gotten gains at the homes of acquaintances or selling them outright, while...

Solar arrays supply shade — and land — for Midwest farmers

Linda Hezel starts clipping the herbs, vegetables and produce from the vines on her farm in Kearney, Missouri, early each morning. The ground-mounted solar array that powers Hezel’s home also provides shade as she harvests produce in the extreme...

Farm-tech at scale: Maharashtra’s Agri-AI shows India the way

India has the AI (artificial intelligence) money, models, and national infrastructure. Maharashtra, a major agricultural state, provides the operating manual: data exchange, geospatial intelligence, farmer-focused advice, traceability, and...

Soil Microbes “Remember” Drought To Help Crops Survive

A new study appearing in Nature Microbiology analyzes soils sampled across the state of Kansas to determine the importance of “legacy effects” — or how soils from a specific location are influenced by microbes that have evolved in response to the...

These women are turning a remote New Orleans oasis into a farming hub: 'It's what I'll do forever'

When Kelly Cahill isn't bartending, she tends to around 300 birds on her poultry farm — not in rural Louisiana, but just a short drive from the French Quarter. The only poultry farmer with her own processing shop in New Orleans, Cahill runs a...