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 ...

The July World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) from USDA isn’t a major market moving report historically, and the latest report was no different. With no major surprises in USDA’s ...

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 ...

Aerated irrigation represents a pivotal innovation in modern agriculture, enhancing soil oxygenation and thereby improving plant health, nutrient uptake and overall crop productivity. By integrating ...

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 ...

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 ...

Crop farmers in South Texas are witnessing the future of agriculture unfold with the advent of digital-twin technology. Spearheaded by Texas A&M AgriLife Research, this cutting-edge approach combines ...

Yichao Rui, assistant professor of agronomy, inspects soil in a cornfield at Purdue University's Water Quality Field Station. Rui leads a study investigating the viability of using kura clover as a ...

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 ...