February has arrived and as a vegetable gardener, you are likely ordering seeds and making plans for your garden for the coming growing season. One factor to consider when planning your vegetable ...

Crop rotation optimisation seeks to design sequences of crops over multiple seasons that balance agronomic productivity, resource use efficiency and ecosystem service delivery. By varying crop species ...

Which farming strategies can help agricultural operations better manage yield risks caused by climate change and fluctuating prices in the agricultural product market? A new study by ZALF published in ...

Soil is the core resource of agricultural production. It not only provides crops with nutrients and water for growth but also supports multiple ecological functions such as microbial activity and ...

Switching to certain crop rotations to increase the amount of organic carbon stored in soil could eventually result in higher profits while keeping harmful carbon dioxide emissions out of the ...

A four-year field trial confirmed that growing cover crops can increase yields in conventional farming, while a crop rotation ...

From Washington to Lincoln, farm life shaped the leaders who built America’s agricultural foundation—and continues to ...

After decades of effort, scientists are finally figuring out how insects develop resistance to environmentally friendly farming practices - such as crop rotation - that are designed to kill them. The ...