The National Vegetable Extension Network, aka VegNET, works to convey key research-based information to vegie growers across Australia's major vegetable-growing regions.

Tired of trawling around the paddock at a snail’s pace for hours and days at a time, spraying your crop with chemical herbicides? Now, you don’t have to.

An army of ag-bots is on the march, set to transform farming, with semi- and fully-automated ag operations already popping up all over the planet. The Australian Centre for Field Robotics at The University of Sydney is at the forefront of the agricultural robotics revolution.

Including wild flowering species alongside food crops boosts yield and cuts costly chemical use in rice fields across Asia, finds a long-term study by Australian and New Zealand researchers.

Multi-award-winning NSW cotton grower Andrew Watson has expanded on his parents' on-farm revegetation efforts to plant beneficial native plants property-wide, working with UNE biodiversity researchers to explore what plantings work best to attract crop-controlling predators and deter crop pests. The result? A dramatic drop in the farm's chemical pesticide use.

Farmers around the world are locked in a battle  against ' super-weeds ' that are less susceptible to the spray...

US plant scientists are looking for new crops to be used for biofuel. The qualities that make a good biofuel are criteria that point to weeds and invasive pests as a source- in contradiction to food crops and at odds with many farm practices.

According to the federal Department of Environment, an invasive species is “a species occurring, as a result of human activities, beyond its accepted normal...