Scientists measured photovoltaic deployments' effects on farmland over two decades. Results showed that farmers either ...

Cereal rye is a go-to cover crop for many producers, including organic growers looking to avoid a chemical method of weed control. Eric Yu is a University of Minnesota Extension educator on crops ...

The production of doubled haploids (DH) has become a necessary tool in advanced plant breeding institutes and commercial companies for breeding many crop species. However, the development of new, more ...

In practical applications, the Agricultural IoT demonstrates immense value: in the field crop planting sector, a soil ...

A team of researchers from the Spanish National Research Council, an entity attached to the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities, has made a significant advance in plant ...

(Beyond Pesticides, May 23, 2023) Scientists have developed a nontoxic method to deter rodents from feeding on freshly planted seeds, publishing the approach in the journal Nature Sustainability this ...

Send a Cow Kenya’s trainer Samuel Sana (right) educates farmers during a field day at Bung Kwach village in Mbita Sub-county, Homa Bay County. [James Omoro, Standard] More than 300 farmers with ...

A group of Chinese and U.S. researchers has found a new way to help rice plants survive in heat waves. Extreme temperatures ...

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 ...