Another crop circle has appeared in the English countryside — and this one's clearly been made by someone, or something, that understands math. At first glance, the strange ratcheted pattern, ...

AMES, Iowa – A recently published study led by Iowa State University scientists applied a fresh perspective to vast amounts of data on rice plants to find better ways to predict plant performance and ...

Nitrogen fertilizers play an essential role in ensuring global food security. However, the applied fertilizer-nitrogen, particularly that exceeding crop demand and soil N retention capacity, can ...

Oroville >> Every year, the county’s top agricultural official gives his dusty boots a rest and sits down for some number crunching. Butte County crop reports, which began in 1939, are created through ...

Growth cycles and production of aboveground and belowground giant cutgrass (Zizaniopsis miliacea (Michx.) Doell and Asch.) were studied in a freshwater tidal marsh along the lower Savannah River near ...

Diagram illustrating the impact of natural factors, soil parameters, and nitrogen (N) application rate on the proportion of fertilizer-N losses to the applied N in the cropping seasons of wheat, rice, ...