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Benue battling dual drought
Farmers, communities confront lack of rainfall, peaceIn this report, Vincent Kuraun examines how the absence of rainfall and attacks by Fulani herdsmen in Benue are impacting farmers and exacerbating ...
The corn we eat today and the corn we find at the local grocery store, looks radically different from the corn grown ...
Dryland farmers rely on the rain to grow their corn and other crops, so in a long drought, they must lower expectations.
Federal corn crop insurers could see a 22 percent spike in claims filed by 2030 and a nearly 29 percent jump by midcentury, ...
In fact, it would require about 31 hectares of corn ethanol to produce the same amount of energy generated by one hectare of ...
The recent spell of sunny weather has bathed Britain in glorious sunshine but you might have noticed some unexpected effects ...
Irrigation is the lifeblood of many ag operations and to the High Pains economy, Ken Eriksen writes in his cover story.
Answer: One ear of corn has 16 rows of kernels with about 38 kernels in a row, which is 608 kernels on an ear. Compare corn ...
Back for their eighth edition, the U.S. Crop Watch producers are off to their quickest-ever start on planting their corn and ...
In October, Ford installed an automated underground system that uses a solar-powered pump to periodically saturate the roots ...
Natalia de Leon and Shawn Kaeppler set out to bring a crop back from the dead. Their goal was to meet the scientific ...
Art Gudas of Kewanna has been using cover crops to improve the soil of his fields since about 2011. He is shown with cover ...