Iowa farmer Kris Wernimont carefully uses the right amount of fertilizer and pesticide on her corn and soybean fields, and solar panels power the electric fencing in her pastures. Thats because she is a steward of natural resources, as these actions conserve energy and lead to cleaner water and healthier soil.

Growing an acre of corn, soybeans, or wheat in 2012 will likely cost much more than in 2011, Purdue University economists Bruce Erickson and Alan Miller say.

New insights into the mechanisms of action of Cry1Ab and Cry1Ac served as the basis for development of modified Bt toxins.

The U.S. EPA is releasing a new Pesticide Product Label System (PPLS) Web application.

Fields across Illinois are seeing corn plants dying early due to a severe outbreak of Goss's bacterial wilt, and cases have also been confirmed in areas of Iowa, southern Minnesota and Nebraska.

Federal regulations specify that "organic" crops, if tainted by herbicide, must be sold at lower, nonorganic prices and that the tainted field must be removed from organic production for three years.

Daviess County, Kentucky, farmer Myrel Trunnell, and son Kevin, farm approximately 1,200 acres in Utica, Kentucky.

Environmental conservation groups sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday to force it to tighten regulation of pesticide use, arguing that the agency was not consulting wildlife officials.