The EU is really strict about genetically modified crops, but do the arguments about risk and unnaturalness hold water? A new paper says no.

New research digs into the genetic changes in corn that came with domestication.

Wild tomatoes have evolved to ward off insects. Their tricks could lead to pest-resistant varieites of the ones we eat.

Urine salts offer clues to how people went from hunting sheep and goats in the wild to managing them as livestock.

Using remote sensing data could help home in on where water managers can replenish California's aquifers by flooding fields.

Almost all fields have certain areas with consistently low or high yields. Big data can help farmers avoid wasting fertilizer on them.

Agriculture is the leading contributor of pollution to the nation's water supply. Computer vision can now spot offending animal farms in satellite images.

A new probe that says when fruit is ripe could help with harvesting and storage.

Every year a million wildebeest, half a million gazelle, and 200,000 zebra trek from Tanzania to Kenya. Now people are putting them at risk.

Sequencing the soybean cyst nematode genome was like solving a puzzle of a blue sky with all identical pieces. Here's how scientists did it.