A new tool that uses AI to help farmers detect diseases on their crops early and how to best treat them is coming to Iowa ...

Crop production faces threats from plant pathogens. Traditional disease-resistance breeding relies heavily on natural plant resistance genes that encode immune receptors adapted to particular ...

ROCHESTER, Minnesota, Aug 22 (Reuters) - U.S. farmers will harvest a record corn crop in 2025 after ideal weather across much of the Midwest this summer, but the bounty will fall short of the U.S.

St. Louis is a plant science powerhouse, but outside the neatly tended rows of crops and gleaming greenhouses sits another ...

City researchers win patent for farm solution ...

Red crown rot stems from a fungus that lives in the soil. Its first confirmed case in Missouri was last year, and in one field, it cut soybean yields by more than half. A soybean disease new to ...

Q. I am growing strawberry plants in my backyard but have noticed a lot of spots on the plant’s leaves and also have been increasingly getting gray mold on the fruits. What could be causing these ...

Two words sum up the concerns Pro Farmer Crop Tour scouts expressed about the corn and soybean crops they evaluated on Thursday in Minnesota and northeast Iowa: disease pressure. Corn crops infected ...

The researchers introduced African Bonytongue and Nile tilapia into rice fields, native fish species that eat the snails ...

An aerial drone photo taken on July 14, 2026 shows an agricultural plane carrying out aerial crop protection operations over ...