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 ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

ST. LOUIS, MO, AUGUST, 14, 2024 – Christopher Topp, PhD, Member and Principal Investigator of the Danforth Plant Science Center and his lab members Marcus Griffiths, PhD and Kong Wong, PhD, have ...

Heidi Kühn, this year's World Food Prize winner, got a big surprise at the Iowa Capitol ceremony honoring her work to help war-torn countries rebuild their agricultural economies: The cash award that ...

USDA’s June World Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) was released Friday, and as expected, it didn’t produce many surprises. The bigger market mover could be later this month when USDA updates grain ...

The French start-up Elicit Plant, one of C&EN’s 10 Start-Ups to Watch in 2023, has raised $47 million to commercialize products that help protect crop yields during drought. The products are composed ...

Renewable diesel is revving up interest from both agriculture and the oil industry, and now oil and agriculture companies are teaming up to find additional crop sources to fuel the growing demand.

Newly appointed Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Authority(AFFA) Director General Alfred Busolo (left). NAIROBI: Despite the suffering of thousands of farmers, the man at the helm of a State ...

Oil crops serve both dietary and industrial needs, shaping and reflecting global economies. Sustainability concerns drive both supply and demand of oil crop markets, via production practices and ...

Pakistan is grappling with the most severe flooding in over four decades in parts of Punjab, its agricultural heartland, with far-reaching consequences for food production, rural livelihoods, and the ...