Learn about how crop yield is defined and measured, its significance, how technology enhances yield efficiency, and get ...

New research shows that lower-intensity management of coconut palm plantations can sustain, or even increase, crop yields while improving soil health. The new approach, published in Plants, People, ...

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 ...

The January USDA reports, considered the most influential data releases of the year, delivered unexpected increases in corn yield, harvested acreage and total production, pushing the U.S. corn crop ...

The immediate impacts of Super El Niño events on agriculture and water resources are well documented. But the “hidden hunger” ...

Aerial view of farmers tending to soybeans under solar panels at an agrivoltaic farm. (Photo by Zhang Zhenxiang/VCG via Getty Images) Plants like sunlight, it helps them grow. So, it is understandable ...

From terraced paddies in Southeast Asia to irrigated fields in China and India, rice underpins daily meals for billions of ...