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ON THE HILLS of central Kenya, almost lime-green with the shimmer of tea bushes in the sunlight, farmers know all about climate change. 'The rainy season is not predictable,' says [...]

NEXT TO A row of idle tractors on the edge of a field in Zhaoquanying, a village on the outskirts of Beijing, sits a row of wheat farmers. Like almost [...]

Africa's farmers need better seeds. Governments are getting in their way A CENTURY AGO American crop scientists began experimenting with the plant known there as corn, and elsewhere as maize. [...]

New methods of farming coupled with new technologies are transforming productivity in agriculture as a new startup in Cameroon has found out. Will mass adoption turn Cameroon into the giant [...]

While Africa is being hailed as the world's new frontier economy, experiencing growth on a par with Asia, a spectre is looming; it threatens the economic revolution that Africa seems [...]

Agriculture employs 45% of Ghana's workforce and is a driving force for growth and the reduction of poverty. It was the second sector in terms of growth performance in 2018 [...]

The Window Malmquist Index is employed to explain the changes taking place in the agricultural productivity, as well as convergence in the United States and Europe. The results demonstrate the occurrence of [bete]-convergence in these countries, which are shown to lack the [alpha]-convergence factor.

With over 470m smallholder farmers producing almost 70% of total food consumed, Africa still faces lagging productivity growth over time. The gap between small farmers' yields and technical potential yields, [...]

The final contact that your planter makes with the seed every spring can hold the secret to taking yields to the next level. 'Furrow management plays a bigger role in [...]

Farmers, processors, marketers, and others working in the agricultural industry depend upon reliable crop production forecasts and estimates to make informed decisions in planning operations, marketing, and policy. USDA's National [...]

In the weird 1960's hit song, 'In the year 2525,' we never actually find out what songwriter Rick Evans predicted for 2525, because his opening stanza launches his song straight [...]

The American Farm Bureau Federation recently released a Food and Farm Facts book that features hundreds of updated U.S. agriculture facts such as: 90% Of all farms are owned by [...]

The thirsty soil Farmers in Kansas are starting to adapt to declining stocks of groundwater MITCHELL BAALMAN'S well is drying up. This is bad news for a farmer of thirsty [...]

Last year's global food crisis made two facts startlingly apparent: first, the desperate need for Africa's agricultural sector to fulfil its huge potential, in order to become a breadbasket for [...]

Weather no longer has the same impact on the grain market; with the rain forecasted in the near-term, it would seem that weather has become rather bearish. Add to this [...]

APPLES--A Mexican court injunction stopped a deal that would have ended a 46% anti-dumping duty against red and golden delicious apples from Washington, Oregon and Idaho. U.S. apple exports to [...]

Grain boom. World grain stocks are forecast to rise to 441 million tonnes by the close of the 2004/05 season, the report says. Most of the latest upward revision of [...]

With natural gas, oil and ammonia prices running anywhere from 50% higher to more than double the price two years ago, crop production inputs are on the rise. The big [...]

New statistics show that the area under field crops such as wheat, rye and maize increased by a quarter after the accession of the ten new Member States. The statistics, [...]

Adjuvants have come a long way in the past decade - evolving from simple crop oils to today's complex microencapsulated drift retardants. Their role at the retailer level is more [...]

BELL PEPPERS--Acreage for harvest (fresh and processing) is forecast at 7,600 acres, up 1% from 2003. Florida's harvest is under way and will continue throughout the spring season. To date [...]

It's not 'if' something goes wrong at planting but 'when.' Seed issues can disturb tubes, sensors, air pressure and monitors. If you can't keep the seeds flowing, your planter can't [...]

AS any writer can tell you, the old adage 'sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me' is simply not true. Words do have a [...]

EARLIER this year, I was asked an interesting question as part of an interview: 'Do you consider yourself to be an advocate for agriculture?' My initial thought was that I [...]

WORLD SUPPLY AND OUTLOOK For the third consecutive year, analysts predict a deficit situation in the world cocoa market. Factors contributing to this anticipated decline include the civil conflict in [...]

Timothy Crews, Thomas Cox, Lee DeHaan, Sivaramakrishna Damaraju, Wes Jackson, Pheonah Nabukalu, David Van Tassel, and Shuwen Wang To meet the global food challenge of 2050, and well beyond, there [...]

Africa is on the brink of the transformation into an industrialised continent. This is historically logical. All regions started as agricultural economies before becoming industrialised. Most of Asia is heavily [...]

THE U.S. supply and prices of fruits, vegetables, nuts and dairy products potentially could be affected by the moisture deficiency in California. More than 94% of the 80,500 farms and [...]

HE is known as the 'father of the Green Revolution' for his work with biotechnology, specifically research to increase wheat yields in Mexico, which is said to have saved billions [...]

Government acreage and stocks figures issued last week fell within expected ranges, managing to deflect attention from the weather only briefly. Despite additional confirmation that values are up against massive [...]

In keeping with its 150-year tradition, USDA rolled out its projections for the year ahead at the Agricultural Outlook Forum in late February. Supported by strong new-crop futures prices and [...]

At a time when the demands on agricultural producers have never been greater and the need for innovation in land-based production has never been more critical, U.S. investment in agricultural [...]

Increasing demand for food, feed, fuel, and fiber will require increasing efficiency from our agriculture production systems, as well as resilience to climate change, enhanced quality of the product, and [...]

I see exciting times ahead for American agriculture because we have gotten out of the rut of traditional demand for our products. There are new demands and new opportunities to [...]

THE livestock sector can lead the agricultural economy to higher net farm income, assuming that the farm economy benefits from a recovery in the general U.S. economy, according to the [...]