Tim Jones said "I suspect because of the nature of the product and the size of the company that produces them, that a whole lot of pot pies will be taken off the market. In response to the illness, the Department of Agriculture issued this health alert, warning consumers about the illness and the products involved. But the chicken and turkey varieties may be behind more than 135 cases of suspected salmonella poisoning. ConAgra, the company that makes the pies, says its chicken and turkey...

That began in 1985, and he's become a fixture in the farming community of central Alabama -- particularly with the dozens of farm families he's been helping for so many years. It's called farm analysis, and instead of the vagaries of stock market trading, it zeroes in on the four-legged variety and the prices they might bring on the livestock market. Pepper grew up helping his dad raise peaches on a small farm in Limestone County and saw his share of crop failures because of changes in the...

Authorities on Monday morning culled up to 300 goats and sheep from the two farms in the southern district of Larnaca, a farming intensive area dotted with pig and cattle farms. Agriculture, including farming, represents about 2.8 percent of Cyprus's gross domestic product. It will be a big disaster for these people (farmers)," he said. The disease is usually harmless to humans, but extremely dangerous to many animals, including cows, pigs and sheep, which develop blisters on their hooves,...

Finally, surging prices for corn, milk and other commodities have raised farmers incomes and undercut arguments about the need for this expensive income transfer. International charities opposed the program because it undermines poor foreign farmers, who can t compete against subsidized American crops, an argument that swayed the global trade court to rule against one of the subsidies. A growing chorus has turned against the $16 billion annual subsidy, which gives most of the money to...

A growing crisis in Scottish livestock farming is threatening to reverse a "remarkable" recovery in numbers of a rare bird, experts have warned. The inner Hebridean and Argyll islands have proved particularly attractive breeding grounds for the rare and shy bird, which likes field margins and hay meadows. The corncrake has seriously declined throughout most of western Europe, but figures from RSPB Scotland's 2007 survey found 1,273 calling males north of the border. BBC NEWS . Scotland ....