crops

The ongoing El Nino weather phenomenon poses a risk to rice, wheat, and palm oil production, potentially leading to food shortages in New York.

If you've never heard of edible crops like roselle (not the borough) or tigernuts (not a nut), you might soon get the chance to try them.

Some good news for the folks already looking ahead to New Jersey's next batch of peaches and blueberries next year: this mild, unseasonable December weather is not hurting the crops' chances.

While it's still pretty early in the year for Jersey Fresh, crops may actually have benefited from another brutal winter in the Garden State.

HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- Problems with the 2014 malt barley crop in the western United States have resulted in the worst year for malting production in the nation, but beer drinkers likely won't have to shell out an extra couple dollars for their favorite brews.

FRAIJANES, Guatemala (AP) -- For years, Hernan Argueta's small plot of coffee plants seemed immune to the fungus spreading elsewhere in Central America. The airborne disease that strikes coffee plants, flecking their leaves with spots and causing them to wither and fall off, failed to do much damage in the cooler elevations of Guatemala's mountains.

New Jersey Secretary of Agriculture Douglas Fisher spoke to more than 500 agricultural leaders and officials on Wednesday, noting the challenges and opportunities facing farmers in the Garden State.