Weed control is essential in apple orchards because weeds compete with trees for nutrients, water and sunlight, which can ...

This report identifies innovative, emerging scientific advances for making the U.S. food and agricultural system more efficient, resilient, and sustainable. This report explores the availability of ...

Every summer, the Center for Digital Agriculture (CDA), an NCSA partner organization, hosts a group of students on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U. of I.) campus as part of the CDA ...

NASA and the USDA (U.S. Department of Agriculture) signed a memorandum of understanding Wednesday strengthening the collaboration between the two agencies, including efforts to improve agricultural ...

A class of JPS students are growing food in the classroom using the unique farming technique aquaponics. Ms. Beard's Environmental Science Class at Wingfield High School began running a farm that runs ...

Higher yields, greater resilience to climatic changes or diseases—the demands on crop plants are constantly growing. To ...

As communities nationwide experience more extreme weather events, farmers are facing impacts ranging from rapidly depleting water resources to mounting pressures on food systems. To bolster the ...

A sweeping global research review of the links between climate and agriculture reveals the likelihood of an emergent feedback loop whereby, as climate change puts more pressure on the global food ...

Prepare for boundless career possibilities in technology, business, environmental science, public policy, and more with a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in Agriculture from Western Illinois ...

The G.O.P. chairmen of the House and Senate agriculture committees said they were “troubled” by the Make America Healthy Again Commission’s findings and urged it to use sounder science. By Maya C.