The solutions to feeding the world are certainly multi-faceted, requiring knowledge from a diversity of fields and practices to successfully raise food production and maintain ecosystem security. Thus ...

On a chilly, clear morning earlier this month, 17-year-old Shaun Patterson worked on a laptop in the spacious new greenhouse outside Archer High School, trying to get a robot to farm. If Patterson ...

The farming of corn and other basic commodity crops remains an important part of the region’s economy, indicates a recently released tally of federal farm subsidy payments to U.S. farmers. Farmers in ...

It is hard not to be impressed by the almost frenetic activity of the Noda government during the past several weeks as has begun to address Japan’s many pressing political and economic issues. Also by ...

CLIMAX -- If there's an upside to the downturning economy, it may be found on local farms as people who once dined in restaurants are now clamoring for fruits, vegetables, meat and milk."We've seen a ...

Abstract: A country’s comprehensive competitiveness of agriculture rests on its basic competitiveness of agriculture . A comparative study between Chinese and American agriculture shows that China’s ...

Two related items about agriculture—one unsettling, the other hopeful—made news recently. In the frightening-and-depressing category, The New York Times carried an article about the Arctic seed vault, ...

TOKYO -- The government compiled a basic agriculture policy Thursday, vowing to consider expanding direct payments to farmers ahead of its expected decision to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership free ...