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With small changes to cellular machinery, researchers may have begun to transform the relationship between plants and the soil. Their new work could help to develop crops that can collaborate with ...

By now, most people working in agriculture have heard that growing a cover crop after a cash crop is harvested can make a big ...

How you manage the mix in cornfields can determine whether the nitrogen feeds your crop or disappears into thin air.

In a year of tight margins and rising input costs, Maryland farmer Tom Linthicum has found a way to make every dollar count. By fine-tuning his approach to nitrogen use, he’s not only saving money, ...

Excessive fertilizer use can be expensive and bad for the environment, but plants require nutrients to grow. To combat this problem, scientists have been attempting to use genetic engineering to help ...