Farmers in parts of the western United States who rely on snowmelt to help irrigate their crops will be among the hardest hit in the world by climate change, a new study reveals.

Narrow, rectangular farm plots with historic roots spread across the landscape near Warta.

A recent study from Aalto University shows that less than one-third of the world's population could currently meet their demand for food produced in their local vicinity.

Economic losses due to soybean diseases in the United States from 1996 to 2016 amounted to more than $95 billion, according to a team of researchers in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences who examined the long-term impact of soybean diseases on production in the U.S.

The expansion of farmlands to meet the growing food demand of the world’s ever expanding population places a heavy burden on natural ecosystems.

Unless it happens to be allergy season, most people don’t give a lot of thought to pollen. 

With the western United States and northern Mexico suffering an ever-lengthening string of dry years starting in 2000, scientists have been warning for some time that climate change may be pushing the region toward an extreme long-term drought worse than any in recorded history. 

Leafhoppers are tiny insects. They are only about 3 millimeters long, smaller than a grain of rice.

Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service economists say producers should control what they can, and plan for what they can’t.

The novel coronavirus pandemic is causing unprecedented uncertainty in the dairy and meat sectors, a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service expert says.