Keith Berns of Green Cover Seed discusses solving cover crop struggles amid challenges of moisture and timing.

Venkatesan Sundaresan, a Distinguished Professor of plant biology and plant sciences, and Imtiyaz Khanday, an assistant ...

The Illinois Department of Agriculture opened its pre-enrollment for its Fall Covers for Spring Savings program and the ...

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 ...

Have you ever walked through a supermarket produce aisle and wondered if something's missing? Modern grocery stores offer a ...

For decades, boosting photosynthesis in crops has been viewed as a scientific holy grail. Yet photosynthesis does not operate ...

CRISPR, the gene-editing technology which won its creators the 2020 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, is most well-known for its ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring has announced that applications are now being accepted for 2026 Specialty Crop Grants.