Where’s the Next Breakthrough in Agriculture Coming From? The answer could be from the students participating in the Wilbur-Ellis Innovation Award, who are exploring innovative ideas for feeding a ...

In laboratory experiments, the researchers successfully engineered this change in barley and found that the mechanism worked ...

Putting solar panels above agricultural crops may do more than produce food and clean energy on the same land: It can also ...

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 ...

A $12 billion bailout for farmers includes $1 billion for specialty crop and sugar growers. That addresses a concern raised ...

USDA is making it easier for growers to qualify for a new biofuel tax credit by increasing the number of eligible crops and climate-smart farming practices and dropping a bundling requirement. USDA ...

CRISPR, the gene-editing technology which won its creators the 2020 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, is most well-known for its ...

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 ...

Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring has announced that applications are now being accepted for 2026 Specialty Crop Grants.

Using satellite imagery and government data, researchers measured a 5 percent increase in voluntary, or non-subsidized, cover crop adoption by Arkansas farmers. Using data from 2013-2019, agricultural ...

A centre of excellence for crop biotechnology is set be established to develop and deploy disease-resistant seeds under a new five-year project, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Animal ...