CLEWISTON, Fla.—Faced with two existential threats—a disease that depletes citrus trees and a dramatic decline in orange-juice consumption—Florida’s citrus industry is seeking alternatives from olives to hops, pomegranates to peaches...

Federal and state officials gathered to applaud the groundbreaking of an electric power generation plant at Schofield Barracks on Monday that will be run on 50 percent biofuel and 50 percent fossil fuel...

Canola growers could soon be facing competition from a new type of oilseed.
 A California company will be harvesting its first commercial crop of pongamia next year...

Terviva™, a Hawaii-based startup developing and commercializing crops that can grow sustainably on unproductive agricultural land, won the 2015 MaiTai Maui Tech Night pitch competition on Wednesday...

The agriculture industry is currently in a conundrum. There is a rising global demand for food and fuel, but the land area where crops can be grown has diminished over time...

Unsuitable for human consumption but with a high oil yield, is pongamia the next big biofuel on the block?

Some U.S. diplomats, once they leave their overseas posts, go on to become think-tank experts or academics affiliated with well-known universities. Others take jobs...

At the Global Ag Conference in New York this year, the CEO of Terviva™, Naveen Sikka, was asked to speak for a few minutes about his company. He began by asking the audience...

From a tree that grows on dormant farmland to an app that saves farmers hours in surveying, these innovators are finding breakthrough ways to improve life on the farm…