Heat, drought, heavy rain and late frosts are taking a toll on German farmers. They increasingly respond with adapted varieties, new crops, modern breeding techniques and modified farming methods.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Verena and Philipp Kienle run a farm for retired animals so they can escape slaughter. Bernd Weißbrod/dpa Three horses, called ...

Farmers across Germany on Monday began protests against the government’s economic and agricultural policy plans that would see reduced subsidies for the sector. They blocked roads and highways with ...

Germany’s grain and rapeseed harvest is better than expected after a heatwave and drought but damage is expected to maize (corn) and sugar beet crops, the German agriculture ministry estimated on ...

HAMBURG, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Germany’s farming and food industry is likely to have lost about 1 billion euros ($1 billion) of business following an outbreak of the livestock illness foot-and-mouth ...

I hit a roadblock in my online research. It wasn't till I traveled to Germany that the clues started to fall into place. Shara Tibken was a managing editor at CNET News, overseeing a team covering ...

HAMBURG, July 3 (Reuters) - Two more case of African swine fever (ASF) have been confirmed in farm pigs in Germany, Germany’s federal agriculture ministry said. One was in the western state of Lower ...