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The first six months of 2011 have brought image after image of human misery and ecological upheaval.Droughts, wildfires, twisters, floods, heat waves, extreme blizzards - just about every natural disaster you can imagine has hit just about every place on the planet.How to handle them, survive them and how to clean up and rebuild after them are among the many issues that will be on the agenda for the 21st World Conference on Disaster Management (WCDM), to be held in Toronto Sunday through Wednesday.

Cooperatives Working Together accepted seven requests for export assistance from Dairy Farmers of America and Darigold.

Repro Money is team-based and farmer-directed with reproduction at the center of the program.

Oregon has adopted what some say are the strictest toxic water pollution standards in the United States.

The Israeli company S.A.E. Afikim (brand name afimilk) – and now S.A.E. Afikim USA, Inc. (afimilk USA) has announced that it is setting up an independent business to serve North America dairy farmers.

Crossbred Normande and Montbeliarde cows are well suited for grazing conditions.

DFA members and staff nationwide join fight against hunger.

New online tools can help Wisconsin farmers know when conditions are right to spread manure on their land

A decade ago, the domestic market for Greek yogurt, a thicker, more protein-laden version of traditional mass-market yogurt, barely existed. Within the past five years, however, it has exploded, and that’s been great news for New York’s dairy farmers. That’s because it can take three pounds of milk to make one pound of yogurt.

OTTAWA -- With rare exceptions, discussions of food policy in Canada are limited to the joys of eating organic and how hard-pressed farmers need more help from the government. What you never hear is this: As a result of rising population and wealth, global demand for food is soaring and the world faces a food crisis unlike anything seen since the 1970s if food production does not grow rapidly. Canada is among the very few nations with the capacity to dramatically boost production.But we’re not. In fact, Canadian agriculture is stagnant. And politicians will not even discuss how we can change that.