May 11—(Joan Casanova) In neighborhoods across the country, homeowners are getting extra help in their quest for the elusive, perfect lawn. The secret? An innovation in grass seed technology known as ...

Seventy-five-thousand dollars is a lot of money to put into a tool whose only job is to obliterate weed seeds. But buying such a tool – called a harvest weed seed control system (HWSC), which uses ...

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 ...

USDA advanced regulatory approval for a Davis-based company creating a new seed technology that will allow growers to identify plant stress within 48 hours of onset and help pinpoint remedies with ...

Synthetic seed technology represents a significant biotechnological advancement in plant science, enabling the encapsulation of explants—such as nodal segments, shoot tips or embryos—in a gelling ...

Stakeholders have called for the adoption of advanced technologies to transform Africa’s seed systems and boost food production across the continent. This was made known at the 7th Seedconnect Africa ...

Contract law is interesting. Most farmers are well-versed in the nuances of "offer" and "acceptance," or what is and isn't "valid consideration" for a contract. At the very least, we are able to toss ...

"That is the speed of the Nanfan 'Silicon Valley'." "Nanfan" refers to the practice of using the warm southern climate to ...

Seed germination, which is the essential first step toward crop establishment, begins with water uptake into the seedling. The term “seed imbibition” represents this process of water uptake and is ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about food tech and science. Equinom, an Israeli startup, raised $10 million in a Series B round of funding from BASF ...