Smart farming technologies, like smart irrigation and targeted spraying systems, are helping farms reduce water use, burn less fuel and optimize fertilizer and pesticide applications. Those gains have ...

Over the years, the Smart Farm of Barrington has been a green place for producing and donating organic food, as well as an educational center where people learn about cooking and growing healthy food.

The data revolution is underway in agriculture, writes the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in a 2023 report titled “Smart Farming: the transformative potential of data-driven ...

America’s farms don’t just run on corn and cattle. They also run on cash from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Every year, the USDA spends billions of dollars to keep farmers in business. It hands ...

The UN projects that the world's population will reach 9.7 billion by 2050, which will cause global agricultural production to rise 69% between 2010 and 2050. To meet the growing demand, farmers and ...

The techniques are a cornerstone of the Agriculture Department’s approach to addressing a warming planet, but it is unclear whether more widespread deployment of such methods can truly reverse the ...

As USDA weighs the future of its $3.1 billion climate-smart commodities grants, projects at Texas and Georgia universities are also on the line. Agriculture Department officials reviewing the agency’s ...

The agricultural sector is going to face enormous challenges in order to feed the 9.6 billion people that the FAO predicts are going to inhabit the planet by 2050: food production must increase by 70% ...