On a stretch of permanently conserved land in Mansfield, rows of winter greens sit quietly beneath a sky that no longer ...
According to the Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy, an initiative aimed at reducing nitrogen and phosphorus runoff into Iowa’s ...
Prices for nearly every major U.S. crop are below what it costs to grow them. But a drop in rice prices means another blow to ...
Climate change caused drought and flooding is damaging Nigeria’s staple foods, maize, cassava, millet and yam, smallholder ...
Discover why healthy soil is vital for our food supply, climate, and future, and how human actions—like intensive agriculture ...
One of the reasons I look forward to our monthly Socratic discussion group is the opportunity to learn something new. Regardless of what knowledge I have of the designated topic going in, two hours of ...
At the World Economic Forum this week, Al Gore made a contentious statement about American crop insurance programs, prompting ...
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How to feed the world's ten billion people

With the world struggling to feed eight billion people today, how will we feed ten billion by 2050?That is a tall order. The ...
Two extremely damaging crop pests have interbred to create hybrids resistant to more than one pesticide that could cause ...
With already thin profit margins and increasingly uncertain farm labor and other input costs, precision agriculture ...
Kenny Reinke combines no-till farming with cover crops and seed cleaning to build soil health on his Nebraska operation.