You manage the weakness of each field or soil type by choosing the best hybrids, varying plant population and fertilizer rates and selecting the appropriate herbicides and disease-control measures.

AMES, Iowa – Experiments involving the integration of cattle into crop rotations in organic food production showed such systems performed well in keeping pathogens out of meat, according to a recently ...

Researchers in Saudi Arabia have fabricated an integrated fully PV-powered system to extract fresh water from the atmosphere. The system uses excess heat from the solar modules to evaporate and ...

Are we finally starting to see the adoption of labor-saving robots in agriculture? The short and unfulfilling summary answer is “It depends”. Undeniably, we are seeing clear signs of progress yet, ...

In addition, the U.S. soybean crop is expected to be quite robust as well, less than five percent below the 4.46 billion bushel record production level recorded in 2021. Even the U.S. wheat crop was ...

As the world faces more climate variability and extremes in the face of global warming, sudden environmental changes add an extra layer of stress to food production in the United States and around the ...

Conversion of sorghum grass to ethanol has increased with the interest in renewable fuel sources. Researchers at Iowa State University examined 12 varieties of sorghum grass grown in single and double ...

Olisa Babafemi, a Nigerian specialist in plant and seed science, is contributing to agricultural research, seed quality ...

Greenwood, an Australian solar engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) company, has installed 48 solar panels at the University of Melbourne’s Dookie Campus vineyard, 216 km northeast of ...

An often-overlooked component of natural and human-driven disasters is their potential to affect plant health and thus food security at domestic and international scales. Most disasters have indirect ...