An overarching goal for planting cover crops is to produce as much biomass as possible during the growing window. Higher levels of cover crop biomass will reduce soil erosion, inhibit weed growth, and ...

Cereal rye is a go-to cover crop for many producers, including organic growers looking to avoid a chemical method of weed control. Eric Yu is a University of Minnesota Extension educator on crops ...

Artificial methods of growing lettuce produce twice the amount of the crop as traditional field-based methods, according to a new study. The meta-analysis also found that it was quicker to grow ...

While the word "agrivoltaic" is somewhat offbeat, its application is simple. Instead of lining solar panels up in the ...

The production of doubled haploids (DH) has become a necessary tool in advanced plant breeding institutes and commercial companies for breeding many crop species. However, the development of new, more ...

(Nanowerk News) Researchers from the Disruptive & Sustainable Technologies for Agricultural Precision (DiSTAP) Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) of Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and ...