While corn and soybean farmers deal with narrow margins, Oregon forage growers battle depressed grass seed values amid ...

Nanopriming is a seed treatment that promotes germination and early plant growth. It involves coating seeds with solutions containing nanoparticles, such as silver, copper, silicon, or zinc. These are ...

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Conservation methods can help rejuvenate farmland, but the startup cost and uncertain results mean a risk many farmers still aren't willing to take. The University of Missouri Center for Regenerative ...

A proposal to limit the use of neonicotinoid-coated crop seeds collapsed in the Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee last week, as rural lawmakers, including two Democrats, joined ...

If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. Seeds sent into space last year returned to Earth today ...

Amid intensifying global competition in the seed industry, China's pursuit of high-quality agricultural development has ...

By Ella Cao and Lewis Jackson BEIJING, March 5 (Reuters) - China aims to boost grain production capacity to 725 million metric tons over 2026-2030, prioritizing yield gains through technology, soil ...

The old, epic story of agriculture in North America had two heroes, long sung and much venerated. One was human ingenuity. The other was corn. That story went something like this. On this continent, ...