Rarely does one plant an orchard and expect to become rich immediately. The average fruit tree can take four years to start bearing fruit. It can take another five to six years for that fruit tree to ...

Tomatoes are a favorite summer crop and enjoyed fresh in salads or cooked into tasty dishes. Whether you buy your bounty from your local farmers market or grocery store, there’s nothing that comes ...

For both home and commercial growers alike, managing garden space while maximizing yields can be a difficult task. This is especially true in urban areas, where the demand for marijuana is high—but so ...

Plant biostimulants represent a progressive and sustainable strategy in modern agriculture aimed at enhancing crop yield through improvements in nutrient uptake, growth stimulation and increased ...

Cucumbers are one of the easiest plants you can grow in your summer garden, but just how many cucumbers you can expect to harvest from a single plant depends on several different factors. Some of it ...

Sometimes, less can be more. Jimmy Frederick, Rulo, Nebraska, planted fewer soybeans per acre and ended up with a state record soybean yield in 2017. “I made quite a few changes last year, starting ...

Scientists have developed a sustainable way to demonstrate a new genetic modification that can increase the yield of natural oil in seeds by up to 15% in laboratory conditions. Nanyang Technological ...

In this work we test the hypothesis that yield of rice (Oryza sativa L.) can be enhanced by increasing endosperm activity of ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase (AGP), a key enzyme in starch biosynthesis.

In just about three weeks, spring will arrive, with all the promise of another growing season as new plants take root and familiar favorites return for another round of blooms. Some, however, may be ...