FALMOUTH, Maine — Many Mainers love their feathered friends, often welcoming wild birds to their backyards with birdseed and ...

Ah, the eternal struggle! Squirrels are clever and persistent and just love bird seed. We have all seen the videos of their ...

Since the first farmers tilled the soil more than 10,000 years ago, the plow has been the essential tool of human survival.

We need housing, but not on prime food-producing land A follow-up to Gary Bracke’s column regarding the incessant desire by Greeley city fathers to grow bigger and better(?). I believe that there is ...

But the study, whose publication was delayed by a pause in public communications by the agency, leaves key questions ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is trying to reverse the firing of some employees who were involved in responding to the ...

A CDC report on bird flu shows potential transmission of bird flu between exposed dairy workers and indoor pet cats. The ...

More than 160 million wild and domestic birds have been infected with bird flu across the United States since 2022.

Since 2021, experts have seen bird flu — also called H5 influenza or highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) — spreading "fairly quickly" across the wild and domestic bird populations and, now, among ...

Those who brood over their resentments—a behavior from which we get the saying “revenge is a dish best served cold”—only ...

Many GOP lawmakers want to cut back on its funding. In May of 2024, Republican chair of the House Agriculture Committee Glenn ...

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