An early biological product used in agriculture was bacillus thuringensis (BT), a bacterium whose pesticidal properties were discovered by a Japanese scientist named Shigetane Ishiwata in 1901 ...

Loans against agricultural land provide farmers and landowners with an option to raise funds by pledging their property as ...

In particular, employers in the agricultural sector ... As of 2019, tractors with autonomous driving features were used on more than 50 percent of the acreage planted to corn, soybeans, winter ...

With innovations in biopesticides, precision technology, and genetic engineering, the future of insecticides looks promising.

The USDA oversees food production and much more. However, it has little direct power to reduce food prices – a centerpiece of ...

Industrial agriculture has severe health and environmental impacts. Cutting back on factory farming is the only effective way ...

Rural legislators in the Colorado Legislature are engaged in a two-front battle to prevent good grazing land from being ...