MODERN farming has come to the peasants near Odessa. Farming more modern than on up-to-date farms in America, yet grafted on a husbandry more ancient than that of the Pilgrim Fathers. Here until ...

A U.S. Department of Agriculture delegation visits the Soviet Union in 1959 to observe farming practices, mechanization, and agricultural advancements in wheat, livestock, and oilseed crops. Automatic ...

“In an idle and somewhat sportive mood,” the Des Moines Register’s Chief Editorial Writer Lauren Soth wrote a few paragraphs last February inviting a Soviet farm delegation “to get the lowdown” on ...

Since 2001, India has celebrated former Prime Minister Chaudhary Charan Singh’s birthday on 23 December as Rashtriya Kisan Divas to acknowledge the farmers’ contribution to food security and ...

Belarus strongman Alexander Lukashenko is a former collective farm boss who has leveraged Russian backing and Soviet-style political oppression to run a personal fiefdom on Europe’s doorstep for 26 ...

Indebtedness of Jewish agricultural collectives in the Ukraine, Crimea and other parts of Russia amounting to 11,000,000 rubles (about $6,000,000) has been written off by a Soviet government decree, ...