Wheat that can help make its own fertilizer is no longer a speculative idea from plant biology textbooks, it is a working prototype that could reorder how the world grows one of its staple grains. By ...

If your primary vision of a family farmer is someone dressed in overalls and carrying a pitchfork, you are in for a stark awakening on March 21-22. That’s when dozens of companies, organizations and ...

Crop breeding for higher yields may be unintentionally reducing the beneficial microorganisms that help plants absorb ...

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

The International Food Information Council Foundation recently released its annual survey of public views toward food and nutrition. For the first time, concern about chemicals on food went up and ...

Nitrogen (ammonia) fertilizers, synthesized from natural gas and atmospheric nitrogen, have joined phosphorus and potassium in supercharging soils. Increased atmospheric carbon dioxide spurs plant ...

Thousands of people wandered past an autonomous planter, robotic milkers and other advanced farm equipment as they made their way through the heart of the National Mall on Monday and Tuesday, which ...

Consider Carl Bosch our leading candidate for a modern Prometheus. This year marks a century since Bosch, a chemist, opened the Oppau, Germany-based Stickstoffwerke (“nitrogen works”)—the first ...

Modernizing the agriculture sector holds the key to reducing, if not eliminating, rural poverty in the Philippines. And part of the modernization process is farm diversification, or a more balanced ...

According to Niazi, over 50,000 hectares of farmlands are expected to be equipped with modern irrigation systems by the end of the current crop year (late September). Stating that more than eight ...