ST. LOUIS - The U.S. Agriculture Department on Friday cut its estimate of the nation's corn crop for the second consecutive month.

...Georgetown County's Farm Service Agency. As the Midwest goes through its worst drought in 60 years, the U.S. Agriculture Department says the price of corn has risen from $5 a bushel in May to $8 a bushel this week.Experts say the warm...

...Georgia received the first installment of its federal Public Access-Habitat Incentive Program grant from the U.S. Agriculture Department, totaling about $325,000.Those funds, Coley said, will be reprogrammed to help make up the shortfall...

The world's largest farm equipment maker said fiscal second-quarter net income rose to $1 billion.

WASHINGTON - U.S. rates for 30-year and 15-year fixed mortgages fell to record lows this week. Freddie Mac said Thursday that the rate on the 30-year loan dropped to 3.83 percent.

...because farmers are sitting on larger supplies ahead of the fall harvest, and demand for corn is falling.The U.S. Agriculture Department estimated Thursday that the fall harvest won't yield as much corn as first estimated. High temperatures...

One of Savannah River Site's most advanced labs is helping to define the radioactive plume from Japan's Fukushima reactor.

...judge, Alaimo continued to preside over civil and criminal trials until his death. Last year, he ordered the U.S. Agriculture Department to compensate a Georgia farmer whose cows died after being poisoned by fertilizer made from processed sewer...

...maturity with peanuts that were harvested 10 days early and 10 days late. They peanuts were submitted to a U.S. Agriculture Department Laboratory in North Carolina and to a private laboratory in Albany for evaluation by taste panels. Years of...

...his dad left about $93,000 in debt on the then-1,800 acre farm. So, he tried to get a loan from the U.S. Agriculture Department to cover the debt. He got one and was denied a couple others, but he probably didn't expect the near-20-year...