Latest Food Headlines

  1. NDAWN Data Helping Develop Tools For Crop Disease Management 8/11/2026

    The North Dakota Agricultural Weather Network – known as NDAWN – isn’t just measuring precipitation amounts and temperatures across the state. It’s also playing a role in developing tools for crop disease management.

  2. GoodLeaf Farms Becomes First Vertical Farming Operator In North America To Achieve Profitability Across All Farming Operations 8/11/2026

    GoodLeaf Farms, Canada’s largest and only national vertical farming operator, today announced that all three of its farming facilities in Quebec, Ontario and Alberta have achieved profitability for the first time, marking a significant milestone for both the company and Canada's controlled environment agriculture (CEA) sector.

  3. DNA Harvest Partners And ToolGen Announce Strategic Partnership To Accelerate AI-Guided Predictive Breeding For Gene-Edited Crops 8/11/2026

    DNA Harvest Partners Pte. Ltd. (DNAHP), one of the world's most advanced AI-guided predictive breeding companies, and ToolGen, a global leader in CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology, today announced a strategic partnership to accelerate the development of superior rapeseed (Brassica napus) varieties through the integration of artificial intelligence-driven predictive breeding with cutting-edge genome editing.

  4. U Of I, USDA Collaborate On Crop Nitrogen Calculator, New Barley Nitrogen Guidelines 8/10/2026

    University of Idaho and U.S. Department of Agriculture researchers have developed a free online calculator to help Idaho barley and sugar beet growers determine how much nitrogen fertilizer to apply for the greatest profit.

  5. University Developing Drought-Resilient Crops To Meet Climate Change Challenges 8/7/2026

    Work is underway at Harper Adams University to develop crops which can withstand the stress of droughts of the kind currently afflicting the UK - in a bid to boost food security.

  6. FAO Seeks Time-Sensitive Support To Protect Afghanistan's 2027 Wheat Harvest Ahead Of Critical Planting Window 8/6/2026

    Rising fertilizer prices are threatening Afghanistan's 2027 wheat harvest just as farmers prepare for what could be one of the country's most promising wheat-growing seasons in years.

  7. Insights On Soil Health Help Sustainable Farming In Vietnam's Central Highlands 8/5/2026

    The fertile basaltic soils of Vietnam’s Central Highlands have helped make the country the world’s largest producer of Robusta coffee.

  8. Drought-Hardy Ryegrass Raises New Challenge 8/5/2026

    A study by La Trobe University researchers has found annual ryegrass, the most damaging weed in Australian grain systems, can adjust its growth and reproduction to survive under drought stress, making it potentially harder to manage as climate conditions become more variable.

  9. IRRI Supports Can Tho's Transition From Pilot Fields To Large-Scale Low-Emission Rice Production Zones 8/4/2026

    Government agencies, researchers, agricultural cooperatives, farmers, and private-sector partners gathered to showcase major strides in scaling high-quality, low-emission rice production under Vietnam’s One Million Hectares of High-quality and Low-emission Rice (1Mha) Programme.

  10. ICAR's Genome Breakthrough Paves Way For Better Pigeonpea Varieties 8/4/2026

    In a major scientific breakthrough Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has developed India's first fully annotated telomere-to-telomere (T2T) reference genome of pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan L. Millsp.) variety 'Asha'.