Few are more invested in our land and food than America’s corn farmers. Yet agriculture is often unfairly criticized, oversimplifying the practices that made the U.S. the world’s most productive and ...

The use of haploid induction in crop breeding offers a transformative approach to accelerating the development of new, highly uniform cultivars. By generating plants with a single set of chromosomes ...

Drones monitoring fields for weeds and robots targeting and treating crop diseases may sound like science fiction but is actually happening already, at least on some experimental farms. Researchers ...

The global production of six major food and animal feed crops (corn, wheat, rice, soybeans, cassava, and millet) has dramatically increased and far outpaced world population growth between 1961 and ...

Aerated irrigation represents a pivotal innovation in modern agriculture, enhancing soil oxygenation and thereby improving plant health, nutrient uptake and overall crop productivity. By integrating ...

Crop farmers in South Texas are witnessing the future of agriculture unfold with the advent of digital-twin technology. Spearheaded by Texas A&M AgriLife Research, this cutting-edge approach combines ...

USDA’s Crop Production Report and August World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates, published on August 12, confirms that we have very large crops in American fields, with corn, soybeans and ...

Yichao Rui, assistant professor of agronomy, inspects soil in a cornfield at Purdue University's Water Quality Field Station. Rui leads a study investigating the viability of using kura clover as a ...

The calendar turning over to September marks the beginning of the planting season for first-crop corn and soybeans in Brazil, and the end of second-crop corn harvest. Trendline yields in Brazil have ...

Lucknow: The state govt on Wednesday said that it was promoting modern crop production techniques across the state. According to a spokesperson, farmers in 44 districts—including Lucknow, Bahraich, ...

In a move to double farmers’ income and foster agricultural innovation, the Uttar Pradesh government is promoting modern crop production techniques across the state. Farmers in 44 districts, including ...