15+ hour, 34+ min ago   (316+ words) Hoosier Ag Today From Hybridization to AI: Ag Alumni Seed Powers the Next Era of Popcorn Innovation Indiana leads the nation in popcorn production, but many don’t realize the global footprint of the industry is anchored in West Lafayette. Founded…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (277+ words) Crop models are increasingly incorporated into web applications, but their user and programming interfaces are often developed separately from the model implementation. We extended Cropbox, a crop modeling framework written in Julia, to derive both interfaces from model declarations written…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (80+ words) Despite a decade of breathless headlines about artificial intelligence, agricultural robots, and fully autonomous farms, the berries, avocados, oranges, and tomatoes stacked in market stalls around the world are still harvested, in the overwhelming majority of cases, by human hands....

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (704+ words) Bioengineer.org Phosphorus is the quiet bottleneck of global agriculture Locked tightly into soils and mined from finite rock reserves, the nutrient constrains yields of staple legumes across the developing world, and lentil—one of humanity’s oldest crops—is…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (47+ words) EurekAlert! Testing FieldSim on farm equipment at Lutz Farm, a 600-acre research test bed near Bozeman, Montana. More on this News Release Smart farm operating system goes from lab to tractor...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (665+ words) Wheat feeds billions of people, but the hidden half of the plant—the root system that anchors it and draws water and nutrients from the soil—has long remained one of the most difficult traits for scientists to study and…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (1022+ words) Mike Berthiaume of Rockfork, Minn., adjusts the harnesses on his horses while taking part in the 2024 annual Draft Horse Day at Mr. Ed's Farm in Hibbing. Berthiaume was one of nine horse teams taking part in the annual Draft Horse…...

6+ day, 9+ hour ago   (247+ words) The Kashmir Horizon Srinagar: The Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir (SKUAST-K) on Monday concluded a month-long capacity-building programme focused on "Soil/Silt Testing and Sediment Monitoring in Soil Conservation" for officials from the Department of Soil…...

6+ day, 4+ hour ago   (1184+ words) News and Analysis on Global Ag Innovation, Investment and Sustainability Corteva says the performance of its precision-bred soybean trial in Warwickshire has exceeded expectations, providing some of the strongest evidence yet that soybeans could become a viable commercial crop in…...

6+ day, 13+ hour ago   (263+ words) Empowering Farmers: Transforming Vegetable Production through Innovative Techniques Devdiscourse Empowering Farmers: Transforming Vegetable Production through Innovative Techniques A five-day training program at the Indian Institute of Vegetable Research in Varanasi provides 30 farmers from 10 states with crucial skills in nursery management…...