AI-powered laser weeders are advancing quickly, earning praise from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as a chemical-free, high-tech ...

INNOVATOR: Not only did Henry A. Wallace help create hybrid corn and promote its adoption, but he also started the Iowa ...

Jeremy Ford hates wasting water. As a mist of rain sprinkled the fields around him in Homestead, Florida, Ford bemoaned how expensive it had been running a fossil fuel-powered irrigation system on his ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — When Russell Maichel started growing almonds, walnuts and pistachios in the 1980s, he didn’t own a cellphone. Now, a fully autonomous tractor drives through his expansive orchard, ...

John Deere opened a new Central Texas testing site about 25 miles east of Austin last year. Now it's working with local ...

People view a demonstration of the KATR robot designed to work in agriculture and construction at the Kubota booth during the CES tech show Tuesday in Las Vegas. LAS VEGAS — When Russell Maichel ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LAS VEGAS (AP) — When Russell Maichel ...

Agriculture in Kern County is anything but simple—and as we learned during Ag Week on Studio 17, there’s far more happening behind the scenes than just planting seeds and harvesting crops. We ...

On a farm in Phoenix, one person with an iPad can weed a field of vegetables that once required 20 workers on their hands and knees under a hot sun. The Duncan Family Farms employee controls the ...

HOMESTEAD - Jeremy Ford hates wasting water. As a mist of rain sprinkled the fields around him in Homestead, Ford bemoaned how expensive it had been running a fossil fuel-powered irrigation system on ...

Necessity is the mother of invention, and farming is facing a bunch of necessities. There’s a major worker shortage. Farm land is shrinking while world population growth calls for higher food ...