Agriculture

VCA Antech Inc. is acquiring Shelton-based Healthy Pet Corp. for $153 million, expanding the vet-clinic chain’s paw print in Connecticut, Massachusetts...

Twenty years ago, when many buildings in Kingston’s waterfront Rondout district were boarded up, Merle Borenstein left her restaurant management job...

ST. LOUIS—The Bush Administration is proposing to increase subsidies to farmers by $5 billion and pledges $1.6 billion in new funding...

When Governors Island off Manhattan officially opens for tourists June 2, visitors can commune with trees that were acorns during the...

ST. LOUIS –  If biofuels are to provide a mass amount of energy to a global population, there will need to...

ST. LOUIS – The race to bioenergy is coming to a giant speedbump.

When Maryanne Hedrick first moved to Peekskill two years ago, she was amazed at how much tasty food was available from...

The development of bio-energy as a viable fuel source represents one of the biggest turning points in agriculture in many years,...

Putting sugar in a gas tank is not a good thing to do; but perhaps in the not too distant future,...

Orange County’s nationally renowned Farmworker Housing Rehabilitation Program was initially born as a reaction to negative news stories in the media...

Members of the state Senate majority conference announced April 13 the approval of the Dairy Investment Act, which will provide $30...

Tasker Products Corp. in Danbury was issued a utility patent describing expanded processes and ingredients for its antimicrobial compositions for pre-...

Last week’s nor’easter caused severe flooding and damage across the East Coast.

In Europe, the phrase “eat the view,” which refers to consuming locally grown food products, has become a somewhat common one.

Rolling along Pulaski Highway, Pine Island is surrounded by an ocean of rich, dark black earth.