Cash crops (such as coffee, cotton, sugarcane, soybean, grape, wheat, tomato, etc.) serve as a vital pillar of the global agricultural economy and a key ...

The main ingredients of breakfast cereals are usually barley, corn, oats, rice, wheat or some combination of these grains. Likewise, most commercial flour and meal is obtained from these five crop ...

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NEW YORK, Oct 23 (Reuters Breakingviews) - This century’s 10 best large U.S. stocks predictably include Nvidia, Netflix and Apple. Unexpectedly squeezed among the titans of technology, however, is a ...

Imagine that you own a small, 20-acre farm in California's Central Valley. You and your family have cultivated this land for decades, but drought, increasing costs and decreasing water availability ...

Researchers from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and North Carolina State University have developed a new programming model to help farmers predict the best times to plant cover crops. Depending ...

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Cocoa remains one of Nigeria’s most exportable crops, offering significant export earnings. Investing in a cocoa plantation is a long-term venture that can provide returns for the investor’s lifetime.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Now imagine that a solar-electricity developer approaches you and presents three ...