Farming

Israel’s milk shortage shows how policy fights end up hurting the public - editorial

Milk rationing did not happen by accident. Protest tactics, rigid regulation, and stalled reform collided, leaving families paying the price for political and policy failure.

Israel faces milk store stock shortage as dairy farmers halt milk deliveries. Febuary 2, 2026
Farmers and dairy farmers protest against Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich's proposed reforms, January 5, 2026.

Israeli farmers protest Smotrich's proposed dairy reform, warn of 400 farm closures

Crop irrigation illustrative.

Israeli scientists use AI to improve irrigation and spot plant stress early - study

Israeli agriculture

Storm Byron brings relief to Israel’s farmers, ending year of drought with substantial rain


110,000 chickens are to be slaughtered over an outbreak of the bird flu

About 110,000 chickens are going to be slaughtered due to an outbreak of a bird flu on a farm in northern Germany.goo

  Chickens await vaccination against bird flu at the settlement Peredovoi 100 km (62 miles) from the Russia's southern city of Stavropol, March 11, 2006.

Global warming is endangering wheat - study

Ben-Gurion University plant biologists are working to defend wild wheat from hungry insects without pesticides by breeding protection back into cultivated wheat.

Wheat Field in Israel

Meet the new and improved Israeli irrigation system

The Agriculture Ministry has launched the smart system for calculating irrigation indices, which will lead to accuracy and efficiency in wine vineyards.

farmer with grapes

Small bird, large impact: how barn owls foster peace

Following Israel’s guidance and success, Cyprus will expand the use of barn owls as biological pesticides in agriculture.

 Barn owls

Farmer accidentally burns swathe of Israel's ancient Tel Gezer Park

‘One farmer caused the burning of an entire national park,’ fire spread quickly because of hot, dry and windy weather conditions.

 Hundreds of dunams of the Tel Gezer National Park were destroyed by a fire started by a pruning fire at a neighboring moshav.

Link between soil pollution and heart disease identified in new study

Soil pollution is defined as contamination of soil at higher than normal concentrations by waste materials of human origin that have adverse effects on human and ecosystem health.

Palestinian man packs cherry tomatoes at a farm in Tubas, in the West Bank

Minimum wage should be increased to NIS 6000 a month - Labor MK

Efrat Rayten chaired an urgent meeting in an attempt to save an economic deal that would raise Israel's minimum wage. The goal: NIS 6000 per month by 2024.

 Illustration photo of the new 100 Israeli Shekel bill. December 31, 2017.

'Biblical' swarms of giant crickets ravage western US crops

Amidst drought and warming temperatures, conditions favored by the crickets, outbreaks across the West have worsened.

A swarm of desert locusts fly near the town of Rumuruti, Kenya, January 31, 2021.

Ukraine says corn exports could fall to 17 million tonnes

One of the world's leading grains suppliers, Ukraine used to ship most of its agricultural goods via Black Sea ports, due to the war, that is no longer possible.

  A combine machine harvests corn in a field near the village of Moskovskoye, outside Stavropol in southern Russia, October 14, 2014.

Israeli strawberry farmer grows world's largest strawberry

Tzahi Ariel's record-breaking strawberry weighs 289 grams.

 Israeli farmer Tzahi Ariel presents his giant strawberry, weighing 289 gram and grown in Israel after it sets a new Guinness record.