LAKEWOOD, Colorado, Jan. 13 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service - Colorado Field Office issued the following news release on Jan. 12, 2024: COLORADO HIGHLIGHTS Production of the 2023 corn for grain crop in Colorado is estimated at 123.83 million bushels, up 6 percent, or 6.46 million bushels, from last year's production of 117.37 million bushels, according to the December 1 Agricultural Survey conducted by the Mountain Regional Field Office of the N  more

PERTH, Australia, Jan. 9 (TNSres) -- The University of Western Australia issued the following news: A six-year field experiment in the North China Plain demonstrated diversifying crop rotations had benefits for long-term agricultural resilience and soil health. The research, published in Nature Communications, found diversifying traditional cereal monoculture (wheat-maize) with cash crops (sweet potato) and legumes (peanut and soybean) could provide a model of sustainable food production pract  more