Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The world has lost a monumental figure in the passing of President Jimmy Carter. Reflecting on his incredible legacy, I am drawn ...

WASHINGTON | The family of Norman Borlaug is hoping his 100th birthday and statue unveiling at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday serves as an inspiration for others to pursue agriculture and similar work.

Norman Borlaug, a 92-year-old University of Minnesota alum and Nobel Prize winner, is the ultimate American success story. He recently joined the ranks of Pope John Paul II and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Back in the mid-20th century, "green" and "hybrid" referred to agriculture, not automobiles, and an American agronomist named Norman Borlaug was at the forefront of the field. News of the 95-year-old ...

Derek Barchenger, an Oklahoma native and head of the Global Pepper Breeding Program at the World Vegetable Center, was named the 2025 recipient of the Norman E. Borlaug Award for Field Research and ...

In 1970 Norman E. Borlaug was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for a lifetime of work to feed a hungry world. Although a scientist with outstanding contributions, perhaps Dr. Borlaug's greatest ...

I was thoroughly captured by the July 6 column of Kenneth Quinn where he pointed out the accomplishments of Norman Borlaug and the esteem accorded him by Iranian officials could inspire "Peace Through ...

The Texas 4-H Youth Development Program is proud to announce an expansion of its strategic partnership with H-E-B in support of the Norman Borlaug Youth in Agriculture Program, NBYAP. H-E-B has ...

AMES, Iowa — Working in separate facilities on two continents, Marc Van Montagu, Mary-Dell Chilton and Robert T. Fraley pioneered innovations in molecular biology and plant science that transformed ...

AMES, Iowa -- The four 2016 World Food Prize laureates will speak at Iowa State University about their work building bridges between agriculture and nutrition to improve the health and livelihoods of ...

The Nobel Peace Prize-winning researcher who developed a high-yielding variety of disease resistant wheat and improved varieties of other crop plants that fed legions of starving people died this ...