Precision seed metering and control systems represent a pivotal advancement in modern agriculture, engineered to deposit seeds with unrivalled accuracy and uniformity. These systems integrate ...

Seventy-five-thousand dollars is a lot of money to put into a tool whose only job is to obliterate weed seeds. But buying such a tool – called a harvest weed seed control system (HWSC), which uses ...

Smashing a weed seed to death as it passes through a combine is a technological reality fast approaching U.S. farmland. Seed mills, capable of chewing through vast amounts of weed seed at harvest, ...

Because seeds may contain yield-reducing fungi, bacteria or viruses, they're often chemically treated before they're sold to farmers. A new mobile system, however, substitutes microbe-killing ...

The Indian government must allay growing fears that the Seeds Bills will increase corporate control and marginalise farmers ...

During the Irish Potato Famine, a million people starved and another million left the country after disease decimated the potato crop everyone depended on. Though the suffering had many causes, the ...

How can crop seeds age more slowly and live longer? In a recent study published online in PNAS, researchers uncovered a gene network mechanism underlying the regulation of rice seed vigor. Seed vigor ...

The Utopian Seed Project works to build NC’s climate resiliency through crop diversity. With climate change comes more weather extremes that threaten our vulnerable food system. Discover how the ...