Are you an early bird or a night owl? The tendency to rise early or sleep late is determined by our circadian clock, which is ...

New research has found cover crops that are viable in Washington's normal "off season" don't hurt the soil and can be sold as ...

Good harvests, disruptions to international trade, and demand shifts have reduced recent and forecast prices for several important farm commodities, but other commodities continue to fare reasonably ...

Climate change is an issue that we cannot avoid, and one of the biggest concerns that affects farmers and home gardeners ...

1 Department of Biosystems Engineering and Soil Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States 2 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, ...

India’s maize yield is quite poor and is below four tonnes per hectare whereas the world average is six tonnes. Despite that, India had been largely self-sufficient and has sometimes even exported ...

Khanna: What began as a promise of organic riches ended in a tangle of fake firms, frozen accounts, and fugitives. Local police have arrested four people and are hunting for four more in connection ...

CHICAGO, Sept 12 (Reuters) - U.S. farmers will reap a record corn crop this autumn, eclipsing the previous record set two years ago by nearly 1.5 billion bushels after harvesting their largest acreage ...

Agricultural futures opened lower Wednesday night. Prices for soybeans, corn, wheat and oats have already been under pressure due to a couple years of good growing weather and some bumper crops. Now ...

Human activities such as intensive farming and overgrazing are degrading soil nearly 1,000 times faster than natural processes. If this trend continues, global food production could drop by 10% by ...

U.S. farmers this summer have received the best weather for growing crops in recent memory. But despite a record-sized crop coming, many in the Corn Belt barely expect to turn a profit this year. Corn ...

Tobacco had been cultivated and smoked by Native Americans for centuries before Christopher Columbus introduced it to Europe. Jane Pauley reports on how growing tobacco became America's first cash ...