SEATTLE — Farms that used regenerative agriculture practices such as no-till farming, cover crops and diverse crop rotations produced crops with higher levels of certain vitamins, minerals and ...

Walking through a supermarket today, you'll find the same vegetables everywhere. Carrots, potatoes, broccoli. Tomatoes lined ...

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 ...

Deepa Bhadana is a researcher in genetics, plant breeding, and biotechnology with expertise that spans field trials, ...

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 ...

Predictability in agriculture is about as hard to find as a needle in a haystack. When you’re trying to prevent pest and disease pressures from devastating your yield, your approach to crop management ...

Crops are at risk globally from land degradation. Not just certain crops, but all crops, according to the UN's Food and ...

USDA hopes expansion of crop insurance access for farmers and ranchers will boost the farm safety net, according to a Dec. 5 ...

A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. has conducted an analysis of the system-wide costs and benefits of using engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) on crop-based ...

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, ...

A Rantizo DJI Agras MG-1P drone sprayer finishes a demonstration flight outside of Iowa City in August 2020. Drones have become much more adept at spraying fungicides on crops in recent years. One ...