This kind of farming is often carried out by urban residents who want to economise by not buying such food items as beans, ...

However, the warm-season transplants I had ordered to fill the place of the spring crops were right on schedule and needed space for planting that wasn't yet available. Thus, when ...

Predictability in agriculture is about as hard to find as a needle in a haystack. When you’re trying to prevent pest and ...

But now, scientists have figured out what crops we would need to grow to sustain a city if such a calamitous event occurred. According to a new study, farming spinach, sugar beets, wheat and ...

Many farmers have diversified operations with both row crop production and livestock. Integrating those aspects of the farm ...

The Tribune is launching a series of special reports to examine how corn and soybeans made Illinois an agricultural giant and ...

Lettuce plants could benefit from acetate—but only up to a point. They still require sunlight to grow. Developing crops that can grow in the dark remains a great technical challenge that may ...

“But that was not considering at the time if we were going to get a rain or not,” said Sullivan, indicating yields could be ...

An FAO map suggests that arable land, suitable for major cash crops such as wheat, coffee, beans, cassava and plantain, will ...