The margins on almost every major crop are set to fall this marketing year, the American Farm Bureau Federation is warning, ...
Walking through a supermarket today, you'll find the same vegetables everywhere. Carrots, potatoes, broccoli. Tomatoes lined ...
Predictability in agriculture is about as hard to find as a needle in a haystack. When you’re trying to prevent pest and disease pressures from devastating your yield, your approach to crop management ...
Five small lettuce plants, just a few leaves each, protrude from the top of foil-wrapped test tubes standing in a Styrofoam test tube holder. To test the influence of nanoplastics on plants’ uptake of ...
SEATTLE — Farms that used regenerative agriculture practices such as no-till farming, cover crops and diverse crop rotations produced crops with higher levels of certain vitamins, minerals and ...
Crops are at risk globally from land degradation. Not just certain crops, but all crops, according to the UN's Food and ...
Deepa Bhadana is a researcher in genetics, plant breeding, and biotechnology with expertise that spans field trials, ...
Conservation methods can help rejuvenate farmland, but the startup cost and uncertain results mean a risk many farmers still aren't willing to take. The University of Missouri Center for Regenerative ...
USDA hopes expansion of crop insurance access for farmers and ranchers will boost the farm safety net, according to a Dec. 5 ...