Predicting crop yields is a significant challenge in modern agriculture, especially under fluctuating environmental conditions. With the escalating demand for sustainable food production, ...

All farming is, in a sense, a prediction business. Crops are planted in anticipation they’ll grow and produce a bountiful harvest. Research led by Iowa State University agronomy professor Jianming ...

Crops utilize carbon dioxide (CO 2) through photosynthesis to create organic matter, with enhanced photosynthetic rates crucial for meeting global food demands. While crop phenomics has focused on ...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — A new machine-learning model for predicting crop yield using environmental data and genetic information can be used to develop new, higher-performing crop varieties. Igor ...

Rows of corn stretch like green walls toward the horizon on a warm Iowa July morning. For generations, farmers have listened ...

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 ...

A new AI-based system can generate high-resolution soybean yield maps across Brazil using only limited local data, improving yield estimates for this key agricultural region and potentially providing ...

Farmers have always looked to the weather and the progress of their crops to try to predict how the harvest will go, but a new tool uses NASA satellite imagery to take the predictions to a whole new ...

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 ...

MANKATO — Area crops are drying down and quickly and headed to maturity as abnormally warm weather persists. But there is no expectation of a great, or maybe even good, crop. “Thank goodness for crop ...