Small farmers are increasingly feeling their livelihoods are threatened as Germany builds "green" power lines which cut through agricultural territory.
Agriculture is already affected by an ongoing draught in Germany, but what about personal water supplies? Experts weigh in on what can be done to minimize the problem.
Germany's top administrative court ruled Thursday that the slaughtering of male chicks may continue in the poultry industry until a method is found to determine the sex of an embryo in the egg.
Dismayed by the German government’s failure to meet climate protection targets, dairy farmer Heiner Luetke Schwienhorst has filed a lawsuit against Berlin to force it into action.
As the hot weather rages on into August, farmers are fearing the worst, and have gone cap in hand to the government, which is now deliberating over possible subsidies. So why does the farmers’ plight matter to the rest of us, and will the government bail them out?
Farmers are warning that their livelihoods are at risk as Germany braces itself for another week of sizzling heat, with temperatures set to reach up to 39 degrees.
Spargelzeit (asparagus season) whips Germans into a frenzy of indulgence (of the most wholesome variety) for two months of every year. It officially started in states across the Federal Republic this week.
The German Farmers’ Association called on Friday for 70 percent of the country’s wild boar population to be culled so as to reduce the chances of a spread of illness.
Germany and Europe overall have seen a "dramatic" drop in bird populations since 1990, largely due to farming practices, according to new government figures.
German pharmaceuticals giant Bayer and the US group Monsanto said Thursday they are in talks on a possible merger to create a global player in pesticides, seeds and genetically modified crops, following weeks of speculation about a possible tie-up.
As the price of milk in German supermarkets dips below that of a bottle of mineral water, many farmers fear for their futures. How has this come to pass?
A farmer in central Germany had a lucky escape on Monday - he’d been pinned under his tractor wheel for three days in freezing conditions before he was found.
The German government has decided it prefers a voluntary agreement with chicken farmers to binding legal rules to stop the practice of shredding male chicks.
Two weeks ago, a German chicken-farming couple thought themselves lucky when they discovered a sizeable 184-gram egg - until their hen laid an even bigger one.
Milk might be white gold to most farmers, but one cattle farmer in eastern Germany had an even more lucrative white substance swilling around in his barns.
Police in Lower Saxony worked overtime through Thursday evening as they pursued a suspect for twelve hours – as he attempted to escape on his tractor.
UPDATED: French farmers said on Monday they had blocked and turned back as many as 300 trucks importing food from Germany, the latest protest against a fall in food prices.
The summer heat seems to have got cows all fired up in the west German town of Aachen this week - with many apparently heading out in search of pastures new.
