A team of scientists in China and the UK have discovered a potential breakthrough that could reduce rice farmers’ dependence on chemical fertilizers to sustain crop yields for the world’s most-eaten ...

UC Davis researchers have discovered a way to grow cereal crops, like rice and wheat, with less nitrogen fertilizer, reducing pollution and saving farmers billions. Researchers at the University of ...

Growing rice typically requires a lot of water, and researchers in Arkansas are looking for ways to conserve water and minimize greenhouse gas emissions with sustainable practices that farmers can use ...

ASK a Filipino rice farmer on what numbers he can instantly dredge from memory, and he will give you two numbers — or rather, ...

Soaring fertilizer costs have rice farmers across Asia scaling back their use, a move that threatens harvests of a staple that feeds half of humanity and could lead to a full-blown food crisis if ...

Researchers have found a way to reduce the amount of nitrogen fertilizer needed to grow cereals such as rice, wheat and corn. Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have found a way to ...

Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have found a way to reduce the amount of nitrogen fertilizers needed to grow cereal crops. The discovery could save farmers in the United States ...