Dairy farmers have a dilemma: what to do with cows and a growing glut of milk as prices drop sharply.

Less than a month after taking over billions of dollars in private pension funds, the government said it would use some of the nationalized assets to weather the global economic downturn.

Decades after working as braceros, the guest farm workers can now collect a one-time payment of overdue withheld wages from the Mexican government.

Hard times are back on the American farmstead, as the price paid for crops is dropping much faster than the cost of growing them.

Hard times are back on the American farmstead, as the price paid for crops is dropping much faster than the cost of growing them.

Despite pressure, the Department of Agriculture said it would not waive penalties for farmers who decide to plant crops on land set aside for conservation.

The executives of the Dairy Farmers of America, the nation’s largest cooperative of its kind, have often seemed more concerned about pleasing industry executives than members.