Careful timing ensures crops can handle a little heat. But recently, sudden heat waves and long-lasting ones in already warm ...

The industrial standard in agriculture involves heavy use of herbicides and pesticides to meet the bottom line of production.

Give your bees water and an internal feeder to ensure they have it for more than 24 hours of sealing. Put a mesh screen at ...

Whether you’re a gardener or small-scale farmer, you’ve probably been hit with advertisements, YouTube videos, and word-of-mouth stories about the next best thing to make growing plants easier. Your ...

After two weeks in Glasgow, the United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) is over. Countries around the world sent delegates and world leaders to the conference, including ...

Plants that attract these beneficial predators include vetch, alfalfa, corn, and crimson clover. Natives like elderberry, ...

Members of the Aster and Symphyotrichum genera are long-beloved plants with a wide range of nativity across North America.

And there’s stewardship value in farm survival. “Keeping these 450 acres of land open is good for property values, but it’s also good for groundwater, wildlife habitat, food security and climate ...

For Joseph Goni, a fourth-generation dairy farmer in Tulare County, California, the region’s historic floods were part of family lore. As such, his grandfather, who lived through the 1955 deluge, ...

A new study, led by Japanese researchers, analyzed the genome of 21 black rice varieties (as well as some similar white and red rice types, for comparison) to try to find out more about how some rice ...

Figs Fig trees need to be planted in a spot that has seven to eight hours of full sun. This plant also needs well-draining soil, with a pH anywhere from 6.0 to 6.5. Sandy soil is preferred over loamy ...