The researchers combined UAV data with ground-based sensors and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to create a multi-source data fusion model. This approach captures both the vertical and horizontal ...

Champions of organic farming have long portrayed it as friendlier to humans and the earth. But a new study in a California county found a surprising effect as their acreage grew: Nearby ...

I think the biggest limitation in vertical farming up until we came in was that people couldn't grow anything beyond leafy greens because most crops beyond leafy greens require bee pollination ...

Organic yields during stressful drought periods are 40% higher than conventional yields; Organic systems leach no toxic compounds into nearby waterways (unlike pesticide-intensive conventional farming ...

“Urban farming can be climate beneficial for cities if you grow the right things in the right ways,” he said. The scientists looked at real-world urban agriculture of all sizes — individual ...

Farmers and gardeners at 73 urban agriculture sites in France, Germany, Poland, the UK and the US participated as citizen scientists in the research led by scientists at the University of Michigan ...

Reduced reliance on tillage saves energy and preserves soil carbon, and approximately 40 percent of U.S. farms are in no-till production, the vast majority of them conventional.

Visionary Farmer Shatters Agriculture’s Conventional Rules, Forges Chain of Success Steve McKaskle’s remarkable farming story hits frontline dicamba wars, commodity busts, organic vs. GMO ...

In agriculture, the conventional wisdom is that the outcome of the race to the farm of the future will be determined by clear-eyed economic decisionmaking. If robotics and artificial intelligence ...

3 Trends Shaping the Future of Farming, Agriculture, and Land Use Zach Faulds and Julie Bennett Iannuzzi Jan 14, 2022 TV-G ...

In South America, we are creating a new narrative about what agriculture is and can be. Yes, we need to improve, and we are much more focused on the environmental impact of farming, but we are heading ...