A scientist has explained why robots still struggle to pick tomatoes. Labor shortages in agriculture are driving growing ...

Agricultural innovation is often framed as disruption. New machines. New chemicals. New data layers. Yet some of the most ...

Niba visits Raleigh City Farm to learn about cross-breeding and growing dwarf tomatoes for urban gardens. Niba also speaks with Dr. Zachary Lippman at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory who is using ...

The support of everybody, from government to retailers and customers, has "never been more important" for horticultural ...

First let’s get one persistent canard out of the way. Yes, the tomato is technically a fruit, not a vegetable, but for purposes of economics the USDA classifies it as a vegetable, and as such it is ...