You may have noticed lots of those helicopter maple tree seeds filling up rain gutters or piling up on the sidewalk this year. State Forester Tivon Feeley says the large amount of seeds created a ...

This time of year, harvest is in full swing. For more than a century, one family-owned company has helped make the Treasure Valley a world leader in sweet corn seed. Crookham Company has been rooted ...

Masting, the intermittent and highly synchronised production of large seed crops by forest trees, is a widespread yet complex ecological phenomenon that influences forest regeneration, wildlife ...

A forest's ability to regenerate after devastating wildfires, droughts or other disturbances depends largely on seed production. Findings from two new studies led by Duke University researchers could ...

For many small-scale fruit and vegetable growers, “local” is the word that makes their business work. Shoppers seek out—and pay premiums for—the promise that a juicy tomato or vibrant squash was ...

Research has revealed the effect of climate warming on the complex interactions between tree masting and the insects that eat their seeds. Research involving the University of Liverpool has revealed ...

Hybrid rice—bred from two different parents—greatly contributes to food security. However, the process of hybrid seed production is labor intensive, and fully mechanized hybrid rice breeding is ...

Beck’s has acquired Gro Alliance’s corn seed production facility in Howe, Indiana, and its soybean seed production and corn drying facilities in Mt. Pulaski, Illinois. This strategic acquisition ...

Your profit potential starts each year with the seed you choose. Even if you do everything else right, from spraying through marketing, you lose yield and profit if you plant a hybrid or variety that ...

Head of Sector Strategy and Integration at the 24-Hour Economy Authority, Dr Charles T. Nornoo, has stressed that a reliable ...