crops

Amid the hustle and bustle of the growing city of Naperville, Illinois, lies 14.5 acres of grass, earth, and dirt. There vegetables grow, chickens cluck, and flowers sway in the ...

SINGAPORE—Drought or too much rain, the war in Ukraine, and high energy costs look set to curb global ...

FIREBAUGH, Calif.—A lack of rain and snow in central California and restricted water supplies from the Colorado River ...

Policies that restrict the use of chemical fertilizers would likely lead to crop failures and could cause a ...

Farmers, scientists, and meteorologists have been sitting up and taking notice as severe dust storms in the United ...

By Tarso Veloso and Megan Durisin From Bloomberg News Wheat futures rose for the second consecutive day with ...

They fly at speeds of up to 20 miles per hour, flapping their two sets of wings up ...

MADRID—More than 50 people were evacuated Monday from areas in northern Spain hit by record flooding following heavy ...

Commentary When you read the word technology, what images spring to mind? Smartphones, supercomputers, superfast search engines, self-driving ...

United States agricultural suppliers are sounding the alarm over the rising cost of fertilizers, which threatens to lower ...

Exceptional crop yields across Australia have been complemented by strong prices but wet weather in parts has brought ...

Crop futures eased to finish the Oct. 12 trading session after the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) published ...

A drought is a prolonged shortage in the water supply. They can last for months or years and ...

California farmers produce about two-thirds of the fruits and nuts in the United States, plus one-third of the ...

New South Wales (NSW) is lifting its ban on genetically modified crops to deliver a multi-billion-dollar boost to ...

China’s northeastern Heilongjiang Province has officially reported 448 confirmed cases of COVID-19 as of Jan. 18, but the public ...

With exercise restricted in England by lockdown laws, some walkers are inadvertently damaging crops as they eschew public ...

News Analysis Despite U.S. agricultural exports to China falling one-third through May due to trade war retaliation, exports ...

As cautious consumers continue to leave grocery store shelves bare, California's ranchers and farmers have been rising to ...

WINNIPEG, Manitoba—Inside a laboratory in Winnipeg, Manitoba, a Monsanto Co. research technician uses tweezers to transfer pollen from ...

Beginning in late October the steady summer rains of the north African savanna abate, and subsistence farmers begin ...

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

An insecticide currently in development targets a specific gene so it kills only those bugs that threaten crops ...

If countries and farmers make adjustments in what crops they grow and where, then the effects of climate ...

Imagine being able to sleep each night knowing your pillow is helping to save threatened species. Your pillow ...

The world record yield for paddy rice production is not held by an agricultural research station or by ...

Peru is on its way to becoming the world's biggest producer of coca, the raw material for cocaine.