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 ...

Drones monitoring fields for weeds and robots targeting and treating crop diseases may sound like science fiction but is actually happening already, at least on some experimental farms. Researchers ...

The production of crops and pastures is fundamental to global food and feed security, with research increasingly focused on integrating traditional agronomic practices with modern biotechnological and ...

The use of haploid induction in crop breeding offers a transformative approach to accelerating the development of new, highly uniform cultivars. By generating plants with a single set of chromosomes ...

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 ...

For four days this past week, more than 100 crop scouts sampled 2,000 to 3,000 fields in seven Midwest states as part of the one-of-a-kind Pro Farmer Crop Tour. Building on the boots-on-the-ground ...

Modern agriculture highly depends on the achievements of crop domestication and improvement. While these activities increase yields, they also reduce the genetic diversity of crops. At the same time, ...

QINHUANGDAO, HEBEI, CHINA, January 8, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The global agricultural landscape is in a phase of ...

In a move to double farmers’ income and foster agricultural innovation, the Uttar Pradesh government is promoting modern crop production techniques across the state. Farmers in 44 districts, including ...

ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND — Researchers from the James Hutton Institute’s International Barley Hub (IHB) recently identified genomic evidence of convergent selection, a process in which unrelated, or ...