Predictability in agriculture is about as hard to find as a needle in a haystack. When you’re trying to prevent pest and disease pressures from devastating your yield, your approach to crop management ...

Wheat is a staple crop for more than 40% of the world’s population, and boosting its productivity remains one of the most effective ways to combat food insecurity. Traditionally, estimating yield has ...

Accurately predicting complex agronomic traits remains a major bottleneck in crop breeding. This study demonstrates how optimized genomic prediction models can reliably forecast flowering time, yield ...

The future of almond yields is bright, according to a major prediction. A recent estimate from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) predicted a yield of three billion pounds (1.3bn kg) of the crop ...