agriculture

Due to the Sino-US trade war, which has affected China’s soybean imports, the country’s 400 million pigs are looking at going on diet. The China Feed Industry Association (CFIA) plans ...

WASHINGTON—U.S. President Donald Trump on Sept. 18 threatened further retaliation against China if Beijing targets U.S. agricultural or ...

Biotech company Oxitec announced on Sept. 5 that it has started releasing genetically modified (GM) moths in Geneva, ...

A new kind of GMO is going by different names, and largely escaping regulation as it enters grocery ...

More than half the country's vegetables, fruits, and nuts are grown in California's Central Valley, often called "America's ...

And how he is justifying his decision to fellow vegans

Researchers led by Rice University Professor Scott Egan have received a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department ...

I have farmed for 20 years. To get my start, I received help from my dad in the ...

The role of bees in pollinating plants make them an especially integral part of an ecosystem and agriculture. ...

Aqueducts and man-made wells built about 1,500 years ago in Peru by the Nazca people are still in ...

Proposed legislation could, if passed, dramatically increase subsidies to America's biomass industry. A slew of concerns comes with ...

Feeding more than seven billion people with minimal environmental and climate impacts is no small feat. That parts ...

WEST FRIENDSHIP, Md.—Clad in jeans and a salmon, button-down shirt, Teresa Stonesifer stands several feet from Midnight, as ...

German drug and chemicals company Bayer AG announced May 23 that it has made a $62 billion offer to ...

A new, energy-saving technology produces silica compounds from unlikely materials: rice hulls, antifreeze, and grain alcohol.

Climate change could push more than 100 million people into extreme poverty by 2030 by disrupting agriculture and ...

In the battle against weeds, tillage is one of the strongest weapons organic or ecologically based farmers have.

In the new movie The Martian, botanist Mark Watney (played by Matt Damon) is stranded on Mars. The ...

Adding nitrogen and phosphorous to the soil beneath grasslands shifts the natural communities of fungi, bacteria, and microscopic ...

For thousands of years, the sudden appearance of a ring of mushrooms was taken as a sure sign ...

To prepare for future droughts, researchers are looking at plants’ first line of defense: stress responses in different ...

Activities of the Maya 2,000 years ago in Central America contributed to the decline of their environment.

Most people in the US put millet in the birdfeeder, but Amrita Hazra says we ought to eat ...

The humble coffee bean is one of the most important and actively traded commodities in the world.

After long hours harvesting forage, managing livestock, and milking cows, family members who work on the family dairy ...

People around the world have been drinking more coffee over the past 20 years, but the boom isn’t ...

Insecticides that are sprayed in orchards and fields across North America may be more toxic to spiders than ...