Global supply constraints on sunflower oil and a spike in the price of olive oil have meant home-produced rapeseed oil has ...

Jules Reynolds grew up on a corn and soy farm in Iowa. Growing up, she imagined all agriculture looked like this—a monoculture of rows and rows of corn in one year, followed by rows and rows of soy ...

Planting a diversity of crops can prove beneficial during extreme weather events. Some plants are better able to stand up to ...

As I sprinted across the flower-rich meadow on the eastern coast of Cyprus, I could barely see my car. The air was full of ...

In sole cropping, the row spacing ... Urea was used as nitrogen fertilizer, and 90 kg N ha −1 of basal fertilizer was applied to both monoculture and intercropping peanut at once. The nitrogen ...

The global food system promotes monoculture cropping, regardless of ecological suitability. It is capital- and resource-intensive, requiring high external inputs and reliable irrigation.

The US has three major crops of interest —soyabean, corn (maize) and cotton — when it comes to securing greater market access in India. The demand for “opening up” could be all the more with US ...

The long-term solution should not be an indiscriminate penalty for farmers who burn crops, but should include supporting the shift away from monoculture of maize for animal feed and to more ...

Dr. Hale is a professor of specialty crop improvement at the University of New Hampshire. Dr. Kantar is an associate professor of plant genetics at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. In a climate ...

This threatens massive losses in crop and seafood production over the coming decades that could mean food shortages for hundreds of millions of people. So concludes an alarming new study.