The U. S. Department of Justice announced today that agriculture giant Bayer CropScience LLC has removed several ...

GDM’s acquisition of AgReliant Genetics is moving from a finalized deal to a focused reality for U.S. growers. As the company asserts its place among the top-four corn and soybean seed providers in ...

You want to protect every asset on your farm, and your seeds are no exception. However, the moment they are planted into the soil, they become vulnerable to insect pests, diseases and stress, putting ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is proposing moving the Maize Genetics Cooperation Stock Center and the National Soybean ...

Are Minnesota's rules on neonicotinoid-treated seeds sufficient to protect natural resources? That's a question up for ...

SCIO, Ore. — Fierce competition for acreage in Oregon’s Willamette Valley is limiting the supply of cover crop seed just as demand is increasing. Seed growers haven’t planted as many acres of cover ...

Twenty-two years ago, when the US Department of Agriculture finalized the standards for its National Organic Program, produce breeders went back to the drawing board. There was little organically ...

You’d expect someone once nicknamed the “Indiana Jones of seeds” to be a bit fanatical and dedicated to the job. But for Adam Alexander, author and horticulturist, seeds are more than just a job, ...

AMITY, Ore. — It’s a miracle that the Ruddenklaus found each other. Helle was a Danish immigrant who grew up on her family’s Dayton, Ore., farm. Bruce was raised on his family’s New Zealand farm. But ...

When you think of fresh produce and fields of grain, the Arctic may not spring to mind. But just 800 miles from the North Pole, the Global Seed Vault holds emergency stockpiles of most of the world's ...