China’s hybrid market of state-controlled capitalism often yields weirdness, but the government’s years-long attempt to manipulate the cotton market is particularly odd.

Chris Cates, who raises livestock in Rising Fawn, Ga., is appalled by the farm bill, which finally passed the House on Wednesday and is expected to sail through the Senate. In a petition he posted earlier at Change.org, Cates complained that the “enormous amount of amendments and taxpayer funded special interests and corporate handouts that have been attached to the Farm Bill are quite disgusting to say the least.”

General Mills’ decision to stop using genetically modified organisms to make Cheerios (and, more to the point, its decision to brag about it on cereal boxes) was relatively easy: there’s no such thing as genetically modified oats.

Just like last year, the scare headlines about $8 milk are all wrong.

Sheeple, according to the wielders of the word, can belong to any number of flocks. You might be a sheeple (that's a fairly common construction, "a sheeple") if you: own a televisi...

Big-time nut heists are on the rise following a spike in the wholesale price of nuts.

Why colony collapse, Chinese consumer habits, weather patterns in the Midwest, economic sanctions against Iran and even nicotine will mean you’ll pay more for that bag of California almonds.

There is a growing backlash against pumpkin spice everything – but the public still slurps it up.

Demand for hemp isn’t as high as hemp’s loudest proponents would have it — all you have to do is look at countries where it’s legal.