Agriculture

A quarter of the sustainability records collected from cocoa farms were manipulated, according to a new study that exposes a...

A new study published in PLOS One reports that sustainability labels on meat products are associated with substantially higher prices...

Wildfires moving at extreme speed may be doing more than expanding the burned area across western North America: they may...

Heather Kelly, field crops pathologist in the University of Tennessee Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, has received a prestigious...

Every tomato begins as a flower, but producing a ripe fruit requires a precisely timed biological sequence. The male and...

Researchers are turning to an ultrafine form of biochar as a possible all-in-one tool for agriculture’s mounting challenges. A new...

Scientists in Arkansas have developed a machine-learning approach that can identify potentially disease-causing strains of a poultry bacterium by analyzing...

Agriculture is under pressure to produce more food while using fewer fossil-derived fertilizers, pesticides, and plastics. A new review in...

Koi herpesvirus, also known as cyprinid herpesvirus 3 (CyHV-3), is one of the most destructive viral pathogens in freshwater aquaculture....

Bananas may soon become easier to manage from harvest to supermarket shelf, thanks to a newly identified genetic switch that...