Stories of mass poisoning incidents of livestock due to toxic grasses made headlines especially overseas. 

An interdisciplinary research collaboration between the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge has engineered a novel synthetic plant-microbe signalling pathway that could provide the foundation for transferring nitrogen fixation to cereals.

Just as we blend, cut, and fold ingredients together to follow a recipe, farmers use equipment to stir together soil and crop residue (stalks and roots of previous crops) before planting.

Imagine your favorite beach filled with thousands of ducks and gulls.

Soy production is a booming business in Brazil’s Cerrado region. 

Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed portable technology that allows farmers to identify plant diseases in the field. 

Imagine you are a farmer struggling to keep up with production demands because of the increasingly stressful climate.

Alexandra Kravchenko, Michigan State University professor in the Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, and several of her colleagues recently discovered a new mechanism determining how carbon is stored in soils that could improve the climate resilience of cropping systems and also reduce their carbon footprints.

Levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) are rising, which experts predict could produce more droughts and hotter temperatures. 

Homeowners who rely on private wells as their drinking water source can be vulnerable to bacteria, nitrates, and other contaminants that have known human health risks.