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

The 2024 crop was big but not quite as large as USDA originally forecast last fall. In its annual crop production report, the agency released its final tally for 2024. USDA says the 2024 corn crop ...

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 ...

Crops utilize carbon dioxide (CO 2) through photosynthesis to create organic matter, with enhanced photosynthetic rates crucial for meeting global food demands. While crop phenomics has focused on ...

Few are more invested in our land and food than America’s corn farmers. Yet agriculture is often unfairly criticized, oversimplifying the practices that made the U.S. the world’s most productive and ...

Crop Tour is a fact-finding mission with a goal of getting a strong, objective view of corn yield potential from one big field across the seven states we sample during the third full week of August.

Modern agricultural biotechnology helps grow more food to feed a growing population. It makes crops tougher, able to handle ...

The global production of six major food and animal feed crops (corn, wheat, rice, soybeans, cassava, and millet) has dramatically increased and far outpaced world population growth between 1961 and ...

USDA’s Crop Production Report and August World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates, published on August 12, confirms that we have very large crops in American fields, with corn, soybeans and ...

Scientists created a highly accurate reference genome for one of the most important modern crops and found a rare example of how genes confer disease resistance in plants. Exploring sugarcane's ...

The business of growing crops has become more complicated as the agriculture industry is challenged with increasing production demands while minimizing environmental impact. New technologies and a ...

Kenyan scientists have warned that the country risks falling behind its neighbours in adopting modern crop biotechnology. Dr Richard Oduor, chair of the Kenya University Biotechnology Consortium ...