“There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks,” said Robert F. Kennedy in 1964. “They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a ...

This is the second in a series of columns featuring conversations with state Farm Bureau presidents about current issues in agriculture. John Boelts is president of Arizona Farm Bureau. He continues a ...

I love springtime on the farm. Everything is fresh and green. Everywhere you look, you see life. It’s a time of renewal, of regeneration. Really that is what modern agriculture is about year-round.

In the 1920s, Soviet officials seized upon the expansion of cotton farming in Asia: Cotton was declared “white gold,” and huge tracts of land were irrigated for cotton production. The problem was, ...

In agriculture, the "last mile" often refers to whether a new technology actually reaches the field and is used by farmers.

Thanks to a new technology, agricultural robots may be getting a serious skill improvement in tending to crops. SonicBoom, a sensing technology developed by the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon ...

Technological advancements are constantly changing sectors of the economy, and agriculture is no different. While innovations like the Haber-Bosch process and the cotton gin forever changed the ...

Wheat that can help make its own fertilizer is no longer a speculative idea from plant biology textbooks, it is a working prototype that could reorder how the world grows one of its staple grains. By ...

At its core, AI’s promise in agriculture lies not in replacing farmers but in improving decisions that directly influence productivity, cost structures, and risk management. Precision agriculture, a ...

The tractor that served your operation for two decades still runs. The disc harrow gets the job done. Your hay equipment makes it through another season. But when you calculate ...

Governor Shapiro launched the Agriculture Innovation Grant Program at Penn State in 2024 (Courtesy Office of the Governor of Pennsylvania) Pennsylvania is reopening a funding opportunity for local ...