Enzootic Genetics & Innovation, NRGene and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev will create a new technological consortium to apply the latest genomic selection technologies developed by NRGene for the ...

As tobacco prices decline and quotas disappear, one man hopes to make it big by thinking small. It’s a sticky, sweaty day in southeastern Franklin County. Drizzling rain cuts through the thick air as ...

Throwing a casting net is very different from growing cotton to Tom Hollowell. It's his first year at freshwater shrimp farming. "I'm very nervous," Hollowell said. Hollowell built a two-acre pond and ...

Conventional farming is found in nearly every culture worldwide. However, many people don't yet utilize the concept of aquaculture, or the cultivation of freshwater and saltwater fish and seafood.

It's harvest time in the heartland, but not just for apples and squash. In small, back-lot ponds on farms across the Midwest, a different crop has been growing all summer. They're substantial, ...

NASHVILLE -- It is a crop largely unheard of in Tennessee and mostly unseen, growers say. But hundreds of miles from any ocean, about 20 farmers in places such as Springfield, Jackson and Morristown ...

CAMERON - Okereta Watson has been coming back to Johnny Roland's shrimp farm nearly every October for 32 years, saying she just can't get enough of the crustaceans. "They are very good," Watson said ...

Many lakes’ salt levels are increasing due to runoff from roadway ice treatment. Photo by m01229/flickr/CC BY 2.0 Sophie Bushwick is senior news editor at New Scientist in New York, New York.

Throwing a casting net is very different from growing cotton to Tom Hollowell. It's his first year at freshwater shrimp farming. "I'm very nervous," Hollowell said. Hollowell built a two-acre pond and ...