At first glance, Chris Smith’s modest farm plot outside Asheville, North Carolina, has nothing in common with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the powerful particle collider located on the border of ...

PITTSFIELD — When Michelin-starred Chef Dan Barber looks back for inspiration, he sees the Berkshires. The summers and many weekends he spent at his grandmother’s Blue Hill farm in Great Barrington ...

Most people don’t think of hummus as a food that’s ripe for innovation. In fact, for Sabra, a company that owns 60 percent of the U.S. hummus market, taste and texture are a serious responsibility, ...

In an agricultural advancement, scientists have deciphered the genetic underpinnings of watermelon chromosomal translocations, the key to cultivating fruits with fewer seeds. The global demand for ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about food tech and science. Equinom, an Israeli startup, raised $10 million in a Series B round of funding from BASF ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) -An association representing soybean farmers nationwide asked Brazil's antitrust watchdog to formally complete a pending review of a case challenging the legality of "breeding ...

Your morning cereal or oatmeal. The bread on your sandwich. The corn chips for your snack, and the cookies for dessert. Not one would be possible with the humblest of ingredients: the seed. Seeds such ...

When I'm hungry for a tomato, I walk across the yard, pick the reddest, roundest fruit I can find and march back to the kitchen with it. When my buddy Scott Benson has a tomato craving, it's 105 times ...

The newly opened Future Seeds genebank is part of a network of research resources that, it is hoped, will help crop scientists future-proof the food system against climate change and other shocks.