Tomatoes are growing in popularity as a crop in Illinois. “It’s becoming a tomato state,” University of Illinois professor Mohammed Babadoost said. While Illinois is known as being the No. 1 state for ...

Traditional disease detection methods in agriculture often rely on manual observation by specialists, a process that is labor ...

Few spring scenes are as spectacular as the annual display provided by dogwood trees in the Ozark woodlands. Inconspicuous for most of the year, these diminutive denizens of our forests outdo their ...

An unassuming dogwood tree outside Camp David became the solution to a devastating disease. A University of Tennessee professor found it.

The University of Florida developed a prediction model for strawberry anthracnose fruit rot based on temperature and leaf ...

At seven years old, David Petrocco, Sr., began working the family farm. He’s guided the business to the strong operation Petrocco Farms is today. Now more than 70 years later, he and his children ...