The Green Revolution of the 1950s and 1960s dramatically increased yields and secured the global food supply for a rapidly ...

Cover crops can provide good grazing material for farmers with both row crops and cattle. Many farmers have diversified operations with both row crop production and livestock. Integrating those ...

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 ...

Something significant is happening across the American agricultural landscape, and it's not just a blip on the radar. States ...

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 ...

Nanopriming is a seed treatment that promotes germination and early plant growth. It involves coating seeds with solutions containing nanoparticles, such as silver, copper, silicon, or zinc. These are ...

On a hilltop field in Rush County, Kevin Wiltse stabbed his spade into plant residue-encrusted earth and turned over a shovelful of dark soil. He knelt, scooped up a fistful of moist, porous ...

Human civilisation has been shaped by the emergence of domesticated crop plants and livestock from their wild relatives. This long-term process involved ...

Corynespora cassiicola is a versatile and highly adaptive fungal pathogen that poses significant challenges to a range of agricultural crops worldwide. Notably responsible for leaf spot and leaf fall ...

Technology is transforming agriculture, creating high-tech, high-paying jobs and attracting a diverse workforce to farming.

Throughout the summer, floods and storms destroyed farms throughout Iowa. Many of the crop acres were completely washed out by the flooding, especially in the northwest portion of the state. On fields ...

Robeson County is home to a diverse agricultural landscape, including row crops such as corn, soybeans, cotton, tobacco and small grains. The Extension field crops agent will serve as a trusted ...