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In Rocky Ford, farmer Greg Smith this week laid off his lone farm stand employee because he said customers all but vanished when news of the outbreak spread.

Farmers and landowners are being asked to plant rows of wildflowers along the edges of England's fields to create a network of "bee roads" to boost declining numbers.

ACROSS MISSISSIPPI a ' Mississippi farmers are being encouraged to sign up for a Farm Service Agency program aimed at defeating erosion, promoting clean air and reinforcing wildlife habitat.

Three-inch deep water would seem to be about the last thing Dave Hedlin would want to see on the field where he grows cucumbers, potatoes and other crops near northern Washington's Skagit Bay.

The National Academies of Sciences on Sunday begins a series of meetings examining whether the federal government should lift or modify limits on pumping from California's delta, restrictions farmers blame for a water shortage that has left once-fertile fields to wither.

Three San Joaquin Valley nut farmers are suing the federal government, saying it has no constitutional authority to oversee the management of a threatened fish species.