AMES, Iowa – A recently published study led by Iowa State University scientists applied a fresh perspective to vast amounts of data on rice plants to find better ways to predict plant performance and ...

Oroville >> Every year, the county’s top agricultural official gives his dusty boots a rest and sits down for some number crunching. Butte County crop reports, which began in 1939, are created through ...

LA JARA - Dave Valdez still doesn't know what happened to his oat field August 15 when he discovered a section of it was flattened in a pattern, almost like a crop circle. Valdez discovered it when he ...

You saw them in “Signs,” you read about them in Scientific American, now those mysterious geometric patterns that irritate the heck out of farmers have a film all their own. It’s called “Crop Circles: ...

Hundreds of people have apparently made a pilgrimage to the Mexican municipality of Texcoco — roughly 40 minutes northeast of Mexico City — to investigate mysterious crop patterns that supposedly ...

A new study unearthed patterns in datasets collected on rice plants across Asia that allowed researchers to develop a matrix to predict the traits of rice plants depending on their genetics and ...