The Washington Supreme Court ruled 5-4 today that farmworkers are entitled to overtime pay, eliminating a decades-old exemption for agriculture from the state's minimum wage law. Read More…

The world likely can’t keep global warming to a relatively safe minimum unless we change how we grow, eat and throw away our food, but we don’t need to all go vegan, a new study says. Read More…

The Trump administration is expected to pay farmers more than $37 billion this year, a historic sum largely intended to help those hit by trade wars and the coronavirus pandemic. Of the first nearly $5 billion paid out under a pandemic-relief program, just over 1% of recipients received at least one-quarter of the funds, or $1.2 billion, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of federal data. Read More…

Cargill Inc., the world’s biggest agricultural commodities trader, plans to harness wind power by fixing massive wing sails to some of its cargo fleet to reduce fuel use and greenhouse gas emissions. Read More…

Bayer, the inventor of aspirin, bet big on agriculture with its $63 billion acquisition of Monsanto in 2018. The move was supposed to help the German company tap into rising demand driven by rapid population growth. Instead, it exposed Bayer to open-ended legal liabilities and a market that has been severely disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic. Read More…

Iowa’s Kelly Garrett is the first one in five generations of toiling the family farm to cash in on what plants and soil do naturally -- trap carbon dioxide from the air. Read More…