Farmers will often place sheets of plastic on the ground along their crop rows, in order to help hold moisture in the soil. According to a new study, however, the use of wax-coated sand may be a ...

Researchers have found that the plastic mulch used to support the growth of Californian strawberries sheds large quantities of plastic mulch fragments. These particles have been shown to negatively ...

WAYLAND, MI — Bill Scobey owns a 78-acre farm in Wayland, and for over 40 years, he's taken his produce south to sell at Kalamazoo-area farmer's markets. He takes the plastic mulch — pulled and rolled ...

For close to a decade, Michel Frigon struggled with his corn crop. He had volume, but not quality, making it hard to feed the cows on his dairy farm in Albanel, Que., about 150 kilometres northwest of ...