Scientists are tapping into the DNA of a wild oat, considered by some to be a noxious weed, to see if it can help combat crown rust, the most damaging fungal disease of oats worldwide. Agricultural ...

Aggressive new strains of wheat rust diseases -- called stem rust and stripe rust -- have decimated up to 40 percent of farmers' wheat fields in recent harvests in North Africa, the Middle East, ...

MAXWELL, Iowa — For the past several weeks, a corn disease called southern rust has been quickly spreading across Iowa. According to the Crop Protection Network, it is already in 40 Iowa counties as ...

Support from Northarvest Bean Growers Association and U.S. Department of Agriculture Specialty Crop Block Grants has allowed researchers at North Dakota State University to look at ways to manage ...

Agriculture in the United States is nearing a critical point. Due to increased fertilizer and land costs, climate change, water quality and inflation, pressure is mounting on farmers. These pressures ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- Experts say it's only a matter of time -- several months to years -- before a wind-borne fungus called Asian soybean rust invades the United States after ravaging crops in Brazil, ...

In spring 1920, Edgar McFadden was toiling away in the wheat fields of South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Statn's Highmore location. McFadden was State College's official plant breeder and was ...

With districts situated in sub mountain areas including Ropar, Hoshiarpur and Gurdaspur having recently reported appearance of yellow rust disease in wheat crops, the agriculture department has issued ...