Enzootic Genetics & Innovation, NRGene and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev will create a new technological consortium to apply the latest genomic selection technologies developed by NRGene for the ...

It's harvest time in the heartland, but not just for apples and squash. In small, back-lot ponds on farms across the Midwest, a different crop has been growing all summer. They're substantial, ...

Throwing a casting net is very different from growing cotton to Tom Hollowell. It's his first year at freshwater shrimp farming. "I'm very nervous," Hollowell said. Hollowell built a two-acre pond and ...

NASHVILLE -- It is a crop largely unheard of in Tennessee and mostly unseen, growers say. But hundreds of miles from any ocean, about 20 farmers in places such as Springfield, Jackson and Morristown ...

They had to be convinced. Dan Cook and Doug Elder, co-founders of Freedom Freshwater Shrimp Co., were a bit skeptical when they heard that some farmers in Kentucky were starting up shrimp farms. Armed ...

CAMERON - Okereta Watson has been coming back to Johnny Roland's shrimp farm nearly every October for 32 years, saying she just can't get enough of the crustaceans. "They are very good," Watson said ...

Many lakes’ salt levels are increasing due to runoff from roadway ice treatment. Photo by m01229/flickr/CC BY 2.0 Sophie Bushwick is senior news editor at New Scientist in New York, New York.

Throwing a casting net is very different from growing cotton to Tom Hollowell. It's his first year at freshwater shrimp farming. "I'm very nervous," Hollowell said. Hollowell built a two-acre pond and ...