Water availability is fundamental to crop production, and in the last few years farmers have seen widely varying degrees of moisture available during the growing season – both too much and too little.

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A new Coordinated Research Project has been launched to develop Climate-Smart Agricultural practices to manage and restore salt-affected soils in agricultural land. The IAEA, through the Joint ...

Lethbridge Polytechnic, in partnership with industry, producers, academics and government representatives, will host the 2026 Irrigated Crop Production Update on Jan. 22, 2026.

Despite drought and weather concerns to finish 2023, South America is still sitting on a big crop. USDA’s latest WASDE report released on Friday made minor revisions to the South American crop ...

To harness the power of the sun and make sugars for energy storage, plants use photosynthesis. But some plants are more efficient at it than others. For the first time, researchers have identified a ...

MARICOPA, Ariz. — It might be hard to imagine crops thriving in the hot, dry climate of central Arizona. But one crop, called guayule (pronounced why-yoo-lee), has caught the attention of farmers and ...

“Cotton is one of our number one row crops,” said Anthony Black, superintendent of the Southeast Research and Education Center of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences at the University of Georgia.