Angry Farmers Storm India’s Red Fort in Challenge to Modi

NEW DELHI — Tens of thousands of protesting farmers marched, rode horses and drove long lines of tractors into India's capital on Tuesday, breaking through police barricades to storm the historic Red Fort — a deeply symbolic act that revealed the scale of thei...
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Coronavirus Claims an Unexpected Victim: Florida Vegetables

PALMETTO, Fla. — Mounds of harvested zucchini and yellow squash ripened and then rotted in the hot Florida sun. Juicy tomatoes were left to wither — unpicked — in farmers' fields. “This is a catastrophe. We haven’t even started to calculate it. It’s going t...
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Gov. Newsom Proposes New Plan for Managing Water

SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom revealed a plan on Tuesday that would keep more water in the fragile San Joaquin River Delta while restoring 60,000 acres of habitat for endangered species and generating more tha...
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Trump Thanks Farmers for Backing Him Through China Trade War

AUSTIN, Texas — President Donald Trump thanked farmers Sunday for supporting him through a trade war with China as he promoted a new North American trade agreement and a separate one with China that he said will massively benefit farmers. “We did it,” Trump...