One of the tasks you can complete before spring is planting cover crops. February is a perfect time to broadcast some seeds and coat the ground with plants that benefit the soil in the long run. The ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture says commodity-specific payment rates will be released by the end of March in the Assistance for Specialty Crop Farmers Program, which is for specialty ...

Farmers now have more reasons to consider rotating their crops, University of Alberta research shows. Widely used to restore soil health, the agricultural practice boosts the diversity of bacterial ...

Usama has a passion for video games and a talent for capturing their magic in writing. He brings games to life with his words, and he's been fascinated by games for as long as he's had a joystick in ...

The Gates Foundation has awarded a grant of $5 million to Professor Venkatesan Sundaresan and colleagues in India to expand self-cloning seed technology to crops that are popular in India but not ...

Prices for nearly every major U.S. crop are below what it costs to grow them. But a drop in rice prices means another blow to farmers in Mississippi’s agricultural belt. “What am I supposed to do with ...

It takes Mandela Fernández-Grandon 15 minutes to train a hoverfly, a harmless wasp look-alike. The entomologist at the University of Greenwich, UK, immobilises each tiny insect in a cocoon-like holder ...

While there are several good options for terminating cover crops, it’s important to understand which cover crop termination methods work best for your specific cover cropping system and overall ...

Macauley Kincaid reconnects a hood to part of his mill Aug. 7 at his family farm in Jasper, Mo. Kincaid is the second generation in his family to farm crops for seed production. He still uses the same ...

Aerial view of farmers tending to soybeans under solar panels at an agrivoltaic farm. (Photo by Zhang Zhenxiang/VCG via Getty Images) Plants like sunlight, it helps them grow. So, it is understandable ...

Australian researchers have created tiny compartments to help supercharge photosynthesis, potentially boosting wheat and rice yields while slashing water and nitrogen use. Researchers from Associate ...