Predictability in agriculture is about as hard to find as a needle in a haystack. When you’re trying to prevent pest and disease pressures from devastating your yield, your approach to crop management ...

New Michigan State University research found that incorporating in-season water deficit information into remote sensing-based crop models significantly improves corn yield predictions. The new ...

Influence of nitrogen on vegetative growth of wheat is significant, and can be monitored and assessed using vegetation indices derived from canopy reflectance at different phenological growth stages.

Scientists have trained an AI algorithm to count the number of flowers on fruit trees using only smartphone images. The system could predict the size of a harvest months in advance — saving farmers ...

The latest Soybean Growth Monitoring Yield Prediction report from University of Missouri Extension predicts drastic shifts to lower soybean yields due to a lack of rainfall. MU Extension soybean ...

MOLINE, Ill. — The latest corn harvest numbers could be a concern for farmers. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's latest World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimate (WASDE) predicted a record corn ...

An international team of scientists, including from Rothamsted Research, have developed a new method to improve the accuracy of gene mapping in complex organisms—a breakthrough that could enhance ...