agriculture and the environment

SMETHPORT — In 2022, the McKean County Conservation District purchased a no-till drill for McKean County landowners to rent. During the past two years...

(TNS)—Scientists may have found a new tool for growing crops — and it’s something we flush away every day. The Cool Down reports that scientists have ...

The McKean County Conservation District announced the following application dates for the Agricultural Conservation Assistance Program (ACAP) for fund...

The McKean County Conservation District will partner with Penn State Extension, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service and Farm Service Agency to...

With the beautiful autumn weather we are enjoying it is a good time to take a walk around the garden. You will need pencil and paper. What perennials ...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Some 90 percent of seafood consumed by Americans is imported — a fact that the Obama administration vowed to start turning around by ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Radioactive well-water contamination could threaten some 1,400 people in a rural farming community if federal regulators allow the na...

DESERET RANCH, Fla. (AP) — Under one of the biggest land development plans ever proposed in Florida, a tract more than six times the size of Manhattan...

MILOVICE, Czech Republic (AP) — Such an animal has not been seen on Czech territory for hundreds of years. A Dutch breeding program has recreated mass...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Russell Begaye stared at the yellow water that keeps pouring out of a hole in the side of a Colorado mountain, racing down a ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The circle of life is closing in on the king of the jungle. When Minnesota dentist Walter Palmer killed Cecil the lion, the Internet...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — As California grapples with a relentless drought, state regulators on Friday ordered farmers and others who hold some of the...

DENVER (AP) — Despite a wet spring, the Obama administration is warning that this summer's wildfires could drain the federal firefighting budget. The ...