agriculture

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The findings show that traits that once helped wheat succeed in early farming are not always useful in modern agriculture.

From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2026

Modern agriculture depends on precise timing of delivering nutrients to plants.

From Salon • Apr. 8, 2026

The chemical, called Virestina, is part of a multibillion-dollar race among agriculture companies like Syngenta, Bayer and Corteva.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

Prosecutors are reportedly probing whether beneficiaries of agriculture subsidies had made false claims.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

Instead, those trees must be grown by the difficult technique of grafting, developed in China long after the beginnings of agriculture.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond