STAROSHCHERBINOVSKAYA, Russia (Reuters) - This year's wheat, piled in steel sheds on the Banner of Lenin collective farm, shimmers greyish-gold in the dusty air, a vision of plenty worthy of a Soviet ...

Imagine sombrero-wearing William Randolph Hearst editing with Communist zeal the Great American Farm Newspaper and you begin to have some faint idea of Comrade Yakov Arkadevich Yakovlev. Since 1923 ...

Moscow said on Wednesday that about 3% of Russia's total grain harvest will come from its "new territories" in Ukraine this ...

Russia has no strike troubles (workers who strike have a way of disappearing the same night), but the Russian peasant is the Kremlin’s chronic headache. His food is needed to feed the proletariat, his ...

Ukraine is the the world's fifth biggest wheat exporter. The wheat has been sown for the coming season, but nobody in Yakovlivka, a small farming village outside Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine, knows ...