Latest Food Headlines

31. Hidden Impacts Of Spraying: New Study Explores Effects Of Fungicide Use On Corn Health And Microbiome 8/21/2025

    Corn is one of the most valuable cash crops globally, with annual grain production in the United States alone valued at nearly $80B.

32. Asia Biologicals Platform Takes Aim At Adoption And Market Gaps 8/19/2025

    Biologicals have long promised a more sustainable and regenerative future for our food systems, but in Southeast Asia they’ve struggled to reach scale and adoption.

33. Satellite Imagery-Driven Models Support Chickpea Farmers In The Field 8/19/2025

    A new study published in the European Journal of Agronomy offers chickpea farmers a powerful tool to make smarter irrigation decisions and improve crop performance, thanks to satellite data and machine learning.

34. Corn Root Traits Evolved With Both Human-Driven, Natural Environmental Changes 8/18/2025

    Corn was domesticated from its ancestor teosinte in central Mexico beginning about 9,000 years ago by humans selectively breeding the wild plant, transforming its small, hard-shelled kernels into the large, palatable ears of corn we know today.

35. Indoor Farming Leaders Unite To Build A National Powerhouse 8/18/2025

    Today, 80 Acres Farms^® and Soli Organic^® announced a strategic merger to form one of the world's largest and most advanced indoor farming networks, bringing together decades of leadership in indoor farming.

36. CCTV+: High-Tech Farm Automates Vegetable Planting, Harvest In China's Zhejiang 8/18/2025

    The rainbow of vegetables on your salad plate might have been grown right here at a smart agriculture demonstration park in Deqing County of east China's Zhejiang Province without a single human hand ever touching it.

37. MSU Scientist Partners On Biofuel Policy For A Carbon-Neutral Agricultural Future 8/18/2025

    As global carbon emissions continue to hit all-time highs, strategies for achieving net-zero emissions have only become more important.

38. Danforth Center Awards Proof-Of-Concept Funding To Four Scientific Teams Advancing Agricultural Innovation 8/18/2025

    As part of its Startup Initiative, the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center has awarded proof-of-concept (PoC) funding to four scientific teams developing breakthrough technologies aimed at solving global challenges in food security and environmental sustainability.

39. Inside The Global Effort To Defend Rice From Major Diseases 8/18/2025

    Rice diseases such as bacterial blight and blast are no strangers to farmers across Asia and Africa. Year after year, these fast-evolving threats reduce yields, undermine farmer livelihoods, and chip away at food security.

40. AI-Powered Robotic Breeder GEAIR Takes Over Hybrid Crop Breeding 8/15/2025

    For millennia, developing resilient crops relied on pollination by nature or humans—making the process long and often costly.