Field results underscore their potential; nothing proves ROI like performance in the field. Beyond yield, biopesticides deliver hidden economic benefits. Reduced spray frequency, improved crop quality ...

USDA’s final look at crop production for 2023 caught the commodity markets by surprise. The agency increased the final yield estimates for both corn and soybeans, and as a result, prices plummeted on ...

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 July World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) from USDA isn’t a major market moving report historically, and the latest report was no different. With no major surprises in USDA’s ...

Modern agriculture highly depends on the achievements of crop domestication and improvement. While these activities increase yields, they also reduce the genetic diversity of crops. At the same time, ...

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 ...

Scientists created a highly accurate reference genome for one of the most important modern crops and found a rare example of how genes confer disease resistance in plants. Exploring sugarcane's ...

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 ...

Teagasc director, Professor Frank O’Mara has highlighted the continuing challenges that face the tillage sector in the Republic of Ireland, writes Richard Halleron.

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 ...