Recent research shows how short bouts of flooding and persistent wind affect pepper function, recovery, and yield risk.

Super Bowl favorites like wings, pizza and guacamole start on U.S. farms. Learn where game-day foods come from and the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock Sri Lanka experienced the worst flooding the country has seen in decades between November and December. The ...

Corn is a key source of biofuel. Fertilizing it releases a potent greenhouse gas into the air, so the federal government had approved research to grow the crop with less nitrogen. The funding is now ...

Macauley Kincaid reconnects a hood to part of his mill Aug. 7 at his family farm in Jasper, Mo. Kincaid is the second generation in his family to farm crops for seed production. He still uses the same ...

Across experimental plots from Oregon to Alaska, farmers are finding that the same acre of land can grow food and electricity at once. By lifting solar panels above fields instead of replacing them, ...

Cover cropping involves growing various plant varieties between cash crop rotations to ensure continuous soil coverage. This practice improves soil water infiltration, builds soil organic matter, ...

The Mississippi Delta, long marketed as one of the most fertile stretches of farmland in America, is now a place where ...