There's now have a way to detect a crucial cooking process in the archaeological record: the nixtamalization of maize.

As more craft breweries emerge around the US, hops may offer new agriculture opportunities for farmers, researchers say.

Rotating corn and soybeans offers environmental and management benefits to farmers, but could pose long-term tradeoffs for the health of the soil.

What would happen if the US and Russia went to war with nuclear weapons? Well, first, the world would get very, very cold. And that's just the beginning.

A new system that combines a simple digital camera with a miniature infrared camera keeps an eye on crops and let farmers know when it's time to irrigate.

Half of the bumble bee species in a new study have seen a more than 50 percent decline in population and distribution. It's worst for picky pollinators.

Little has been known about the evolutionary origins of the cultivated garden strawberry, but new research changes that.

In what could be a major step for agriculture around the world, researchers have discovered a way to get rice plants replicate as clones for the first time.

Hot, dry conditions are going to start hitting more areas of the world simultaneously. Here's why that's bad news for our food supply.

The hardy potato helped humans adapt to live in the harsh Andean highlands—and changed the genomes of the people who made it a stape of their diet.