Rotating crops, conserving soil nutrients and deploying other strategies to “diversify” agriculture all at the same time can yield major benefits for the environment and people alike—including ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Quantzig, a global analytics solutions provider, has announced the completion of their latest article on the benefits of organic farming in the agricultural industry. Over ...

Higher plant diversity in agricultural grasslands increases yields with lower inputs of nitrogen fertilizer. That is the ...

These are uncertain times for farmers. According to a recent USDA report, a global slump in production sent commodity prices soaring in 2022, resulting in the highest profits that many in the American ...

Farmers plant or preserve riparian buffers for various reasons, such as improving water quality, controlling erosion, or ...

Slash-and-burn agriculture is the practice of clearing and burning areas of vegetation to replenish the soil and grow food. Hundreds of millions of people around the world still rely on slash-and-burn ...

The use of AI technology in predicting crop failures is making waves in the agricultural sector, boasting an impressive accuracy rate of 90%. This innovation signals a new era in agriculture, with ...

Every year across the United States millions of people take a major step to protect their health and wellbeing by making the wise decision to get inoculated against the potentially severe effects of ...

University of Michigan researchers evaluate an urban garden in Detroit. Credit: Dave Brenner, University of Michigan. A new University of Michigan-led international study finds that fruits and ...

When raccoons kept stealing corn from the Oneida reservation in Wisconsin, Iowa State professor Christina Gish Hill said a woman told her the members simply decided to plant enough both parties. "She ...

The dire assessment from the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) made it very clear this past year: To avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis, a significant shift to clean energy ...

A new University of Michigan-led international study finds that fruits and vegetables grown in urban farms and gardens have a carbon footprint that is, on average, six times greater than ...