Items Tagged with 'crops'

Improving plants’ efficiency at using solar energy could offer a path toward increasing the amount of food produced per indoor acre. That’s what researchers have found, though the process shakes up the biology normally associated with plant growth.

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign received a $3.9 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to fund a technological and regenerative operation coined the “Farm of the Future”.

The rainy season is kicking off with enough moisture to ease some Californians’ water worries, but the long-term outlook for agriculture remains one that calls upon farmers to maximize “crop per drop.” In the case of almonds, one of the state’s most profitable crops, it could take decades to transition from existing trees to others that can achieve similar yields with less water.

The impact of changing climate conditions on the world’s wheat, corn, soybean and rice production are likely to be seen sooner than previously estimated. And of those crops, only wheat is expected to see increases in yield.

The future of farming could include better ways for people to monitor what crop plants need. That's one of the goals of a new $25 million research center dubbed CROPPS (for Center for Research on Programmable Plant Systems) focused on the new field of digital biology.

Old crop corn and soybean ending stocks stayed steady in the Department of Agriculture's latest World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report released Monday.

California continues to lead the country in vegetable production although planted acres dropped in 2020.

The Department of Agriculture is now giving producers with eligible crops 12 months instead of nine to repay marketing assistance loans.

BASEL, SWITZERLAND, June 27 – Now that the acquisition is complete, leaders of both Syngenta and its new parent company, ChemChina, have a plan to make important changes as they advance their joint strategies. But they’ll also work on keeping quite a few things the same.