A new economic modeling tool is helping Maine kelp farmers identify cost-saving strategies with remarkable precision. By ...

Weed control is essential in apple orchards because weeds compete with trees for nutrients, water and sunlight, which can ...

REDMOND, Wash. — May 6, 2025 — Microsoft Corp. and the National FFA Organization on Tuesday announced the national expansion of FarmBeats for Students, a cutting-edge educational program integrating ...

As Earth's climate warms and changes, sustainable agricultural practices are critical for feeding a rapidly growing population. Can we genetically engineer crops to adapt to drought and other effects ...

Experts from around the world recently gathered for the World Food Prize’s annual Norman E. Borlaug International Dialogue to explore modern agriculture's most pressing challenges. After that ...

Samuel Mugo is a co-founder of PimaSens. He receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Mohammed Elmorsy is a co-founder of PimaSens. He has received ...

Technology is helping farmers use land and fertilizer more strategically. Sometimes, the best practice is no chemicals at all. A drone delivered a carefully targeted dose of fertilizer to corn at ...

Smart farming technologies, like smart irrigation and targeted spraying systems, are helping farms reduce water use, burn less fuel and optimize fertilizer and pesticide applications. Those gains have ...

The continuous advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) promises to transform nearly every sector of the economy. Agriculture is no exception. Each aspect of the agricultural supply chain—from the ...

Agco was founded in 1990 and built up through a series of acquisitions. It has expanded into precision agriculture via further acquisitions: primarily Precision Planting in 2017 and a joint venture ...

It's sometimes weird to see what academics make of videogames, coming to the medium as they do with a very different set of principles and goals than most gamers and critics. One recent paper in the ...

While farmers have cultivated crops for millennia using intuition and experience, today's agriculture increasingly relies on data-driven approaches to maximize yields while minimizing environmental ...