Perennial Wheat: The Holy Grail of Wheat Research
If you plant an apple seed today, you'll probably have to wait about seven years before your tree grows fruit. Once it does, however, it can produce for decades...
Innovations: Agricultural Technology
A Promising Response of Science to Face Challenges and Better Feed the World
Most of Argentina's major agriculture areas---including those of our neighbors in Paraguay and southern Brazil---are suffering from drought. Its intensity range...
Women Embracing Agriculture in Zimbabwe With Optimism
In this September 13, 2017 piece reposted from globalfarmernetwork.org, Ruramiso Mashumba, Zimbabwe shares how she became a farmer. Ruramiso is a member of the ...
County Fairs Another COVID-19 Casualty? Not in Northern Vermont!
It's a foul year for fairs: Around the United States, states and counties have canceled these unique expressions of American culture, due to concern about COVID...
Modern Technology is a Sustainability Tool for Every Farmer
Where's my jet pack?
This rhetorical question is an old joke, usually uttered to express satiric dissatisfaction with how we're not living in the future we onc...
Using Data in Nigeria to Reduce Violence and Build Food Security
Farming should be safe, but in Nigeria it can be deadly.
It's so dangerous, in fact, that a report released on June 15 by an all-party parliamentary group i...
Technology Access is Key to Sustainable Agriculture, Regardless of Where you Farm
A stone bridge spans the river that divides the Turkish city of Adana.
Taskopru is a symbol of Adana the way the Golden Gate Bridge is a symbol of San Franc...
Sensible Fertilizer Regulation is Important to Kenyas Farmers and our Environment
It is common knowledge among Kenyan farmers that without fertilizer, crops wont grow.
Just as children need healthy diets to flourish, plants need special n...
Philippines approves Golden Rice
After a biosafety assessment, Golden Rice 'has been found to be as safe as conventional rice' by the Philippine Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Plant Indust...