The increase in global demand for wood requires increase in forest productivity. There is, therefore, a need to invest more in the research and development…
Researchers from the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) have visualized them for the first time,…
Recently released research in Agronomy Journal questions whether more precise management is necessarily more efficient. They discovered that the law of…
Application of waste to meet the nitrogen needs of a crop results in application of excess phosphorus which increases the potential for environmental…
On June 23, Senator Brown was joined by co-sponsoring Senators Kent Conrad (D-ND), Charles Grassley (R-IA), Russ Feingold (D-WI), Tom Harkin (D-IA), Ken…
A new study of the potential ecological impact of various management strategies published in the British Ecological Society's Journal of Applied Ecology found…
Barley is one of the most important crops in the world. In fact 56 million hectares are under barley crops, making it the fourth most grown cereal worldwide….
Commercial flower and plant growers know all too well that invasive, ubiquitous weeds cause trouble by lowering the value and deterring healthy growth of…
Dale Ritchey, a retired soil scientist, and Doug Boyer, a hydrologist at the Agricultural Research Service's Appalachian Farming Systems Research Center in…
Producing milk uses large quantities of land, energy and feed, but rbST – the first biotech product used on American farms — has been in agricultural use for…
The researchers have further engineered the cassava plant so it can resist the crop’s most damaging viral threats and are refining methods to reduce cyanogens,…
A comprehensive review of the principles and management implications of nitrogen in the soil–plant–water system is now available in a new monograph Nitrogen in…
The downward movement of pesticide degradation products, formed in situ, can also contribute to the contamination of ground water. Once in ground water,…
Quantitative determination of the maximum amount of plant-available water in soil using traditional methods on soil samples remains challenging, especially at…
The ancestors of maize originally grew wild in Mexico and were radically different from the plant that is now one of the most important crops in the world….
It is a member of the grass family, which also hosts the world's other major crops including rice, wheat, barley, sorghum, and sugar cane. As early…
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