Agriculture has slowly rid fruits of bitterness, but the seeds that Mueller and her colleagues harvest from fields, or from the experimental gardens where they’ve grown lost crops, have not ...

Nearly all U.S. farms are family-owned, with most considered small. See how they support local food systems, rural economies, ...

While there are plenty of reasons for farmers to consider using cover crops, the use of cover crops has been shown to reap both economic and environmental benefits.

Microbes Added to Seeds Could Boost Crop Production Researchers are testing more than 2,000 different microbial seed coatings on half a million test plots in the U.S.

Before maize-based agriculture, there existed in eastern North America a crop system that is now only known from archaeological data. Present research is exploring whether these crops, which ...

Seeds sent into space last year returned to Earth today in a new milestone for joint efforts by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United ...

People across the country, including dozens of Hoosiers, have received mystery seeds from China. Officials worry they could be invasive species or worse.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has identified 14 kinds of seeds in the mysterious packages that appear to have been sent unsolicited from China to people around the country. All 50 states have ...

In Oregon, a battle has erupted between farmers growing genetically engineered sugar beets and organic farmers who worry about cross-pollination. The question is whether the farms can be good ...

As the production of oil seeds continues to climb in Montana, new research on improving the efficiency of industrial crops is also increasing. Industry proponents hope that increased use of plant ...