Cover crops, plants grown to protect and enrich the soil, are known to boost soil health and help store carbon. However, the ...

Just a few years ago, agricultural drones were expensive, small and difficult to use, limiting their appeal to farmers. No ...

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 ...

Forests play a crucial role in providing precipitation to agricultural areas, importantly supporting crop production and global trade activities. A recent study published in Nature Water emphasizes ...

To test the influence of nanoplastics on plants’ uptake of heavy metals, researchers grew lettuce in a hydroponic greenhouse. Co-exposure resulted in 61% or higher concentrations of nanoplastics and ...

The integration of AI and IoT has transformed farming into a dynamic data ecosystem, where predictive insights replace ...

Groundwater replenishing beneath temperate farmland fields may come from very recent rainfall, merely one to two weeks old, ...

Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig and Governor Kim Reynolds are encouraging Iowa farmers to plant cover crops this fall to improve water quality and save money on next year’s crop ...

Wheat gyrated back into the news last week with the Department of Agriculture’s first estimate of the 1932 winter crop. Where 787,000,000 bu. of winter wheat were harvested in the bumper year of 1931, ...

Director of Agriculture announces 90% completion of crop damage enumeration from cyclone Montha, with social audits set to begin soon.