Vineyards Grapple With How to Best Keep Their Workers Safe
As the West learns to live with the constant threat of extreme heat and wildfire, wineries are adapting their vineyard practices with workers top of mind.
Farming At Your Fingertips: How Technology is Changing Agriculture Work
There’s an app for everything, from analyzing sales data to automating lighting and temperatures. Is this the future of farming?
John Deere to Sell Diagnostic Software Directly to Farmers
The machine-servicing program will be available to customers starting in May, but it’s a far cry from the full “right to repair” that farmers demand.
Solar-Driven System Could Produce Electricity and Water in Desert Regions
The developing technology would help tackle food insecurity in arid locations.
Banana Paper Could Help Fight a Common Potato Pest
Wrapping potato seed in organic material from banana plants disrupts the development of parasitic potato cyst nematodes.
Steak’s Next Frontier: Customized and Lab-Grown to Order
Advancements in cell-grown meat offer consumers more choice without harming any animals. Is it really the miracle meat we were promised?
Opinion: Cow’s Milk Without the Cow? How Cellular Agriculture Could Change the Dairy Industry
Technological changes that eliminate the need for livestock will likely disrupt the dairy industry as we know it. Plans to mitigate the risks this transition poses to farmer livelihoods and animal welfare should start now.
Meet the New Generation of Microbial Farmers
In an effort to replace chemical additives in food, scientists are harnessing the power of microbes naturally found in fermented foods, fungi and other plants.
Studying How Cotton Seedlings Grow in Zero Gravity
To better understand root systems on Earth, scientists sent 48 cotton seeds to grow on the International Space System.
