AMES, Iowa – A recently published study led by Iowa State University scientists applied a fresh perspective to vast amounts of data on rice plants to find better ways to predict plant performance and ...

Oroville >> Every year, the county’s top agricultural official gives his dusty boots a rest and sits down for some number crunching. Butte County crop reports, which began in 1939, are created through ...

Diagram illustrating the impact of natural factors, soil parameters, and nitrogen (N) application rate on the proportion of fertilizer-N losses to the applied N in the cropping seasons of wheat, rice, ...

You saw them in “Signs,” you read about them in Scientific American, now those mysterious geometric patterns that irritate the heck out of farmers have a film all their own. It’s called “Crop Circles: ...

AMES, Iowa – New research led by an Iowa State University agronomist identifies clear patterns in how plants react to different environments that could lead to new ways of predicting crop performance.

A new study unearthed patterns in datasets collected on rice plants across Asia that allowed researchers to develop a matrix to predict the traits of rice plants depending on their genetics and ...