The goal is not merely to cut costs in 2026, but to find better, more efficient ways to invest dollars in inputs in ways that directly lead to improved profitability. A practical crop budget can serve ...

Farmers planted 81.2 million soybean acres in 2025, and Scott Irwin believes that number could go up “a couple million” this season but “there will still be a lot of corn.” In a year when U.S. farmers ...

A new study suggests that decades of reported gains in crop yields from plant breeding may be significantly overstated, challenging a common method used worldwide to measure genetic progress. The ...

As climate change intensifies droughts and other environmental stresses, maintaining crop productivity has become a major ...

(NewsNation) — America’s wheat crop is in trouble. The U.S. Department of Agriculture projected the smallest wheat crop since 1972, and farmers across the plains say drought, extreme weather and ...

The topic of food security and sustainable agricultural systems is a crucial one, particularly as environmental degradation escalates. “Recently, organic agricultural systems have drawn much attention ...

Researchers have discovered that beneficial soil bacteria give plants an unexpected survival advantage in salty soils. Instead of helping plants keep salt out, the microbes stimulate the production of ...