Agriculture & Farming

U.S. agricultural trade generates employment, income and purchasing power in both the farm and non-farm sectors. This new book examines past trends...

Officials continue to assert that the U.S. food supply, including the portion imported, is among the safest in the world. One challenge has been th...

Governments of every sugar-producing nation intervene to protect their domestic industries from fluctuating world market prices. Such intervention ...

Ratoon cropping is growing a fresh crop from the stubbles or suckers of the plant crop without replanting. It is also referred to as stubble croppi...

About 717,000 farms in the U.S. went out of business, or exited, between 1992 and 1997, but the total number of farms declined by just 13,400 becau...

This book looks at the success of the U.S. agricultural industry that agricultural research provides. U.S. consumers have the safest, least expensi...

Soil fertility refers to the amount of nutrients in the soil, which is sufficient to support plant life. Soil fertility is critical in sustainable ...

This book is one of the first of its kind on socioeconomic aspects of agricultural biotechnology in the country. It covers a range of issues relati...

This book examines the most up-to-date research in the agricultural field. The first chapter examines intercropping systems as a way of increasing ...

Large farms now dominate crop production in the United States. Although most cropland was operated by farms with less than 600 crop acres in the ea...

This book is a compilation of research summaries from a number of different focuses in the field of chemistry research.

Phenolic compounds are known to be released into the soil by root exudates and litter inputs thus alterations in foliar and root chemistry have imp...

An understanding of food demand and food trends across countries and the ability to predict potential shifts in demand for different food products ...