Studying corn, understanding its nutrient and water needs, and taking a timely approach to agronomic practices builds crop yields, says this south-Georgia farmer. In Randy Dowdy’s experience, good ...

Photo illustration of agricultural sprinklers, assorted nuts and mackerel. It can be hard to visualize the amount of water it takes to produce a single pound of almonds or the meat used to make a ...

(Beyond Pesticides, May 14, 2025) Research by the Rodale Institute, Ohio State University, and Tennessee State University, published in Soil Science of America Journal, documents that organic grain ...

Farming methods that support nature improve both biodiversity and crop yields but more extensive measures may require increased government subsidies to become as profitable as conventional intensive ...

A study from Michigan State University found that when domestic farm employment declines by 10 percent, food prices of labor-intensive crops increase by around 3 percent. Specialty crop growers with ...

Francois Leroy and colleagues have confirmed what field biologists have suspected for years: bird populations across North ...

California farmers could save massive amounts of water if they planted less thirsty -- but also less lucrative -- crops instead of almonds, alfalfa and other water-guzzling crops, according to new ...

(Beyond Pesticides, July 24, 2025) In a sixteen-year field trial based in Central Kenya, researchers have found higher crop yield stability in low-input organic systems with previously degraded soil ...