– One percent growth is minor when compared to other sectors of industry. The low level of growth can be explained by the 1990s recession and the initial…
Unlocking Farm Forest PotentialMaximising the potential of farm forestry is the objective of a new Teagasc research project. This new initiative comes at a…
Corn, also known as maize, underlies myriads of products, from breakfast cereal, meat and milk to toothpaste, shoe polish and ethanol. The genetic blueprint…
Researchers from the INRA Plant Genomics Research Unit at Evry, and the INRA Grain Legumes Research Unit at Bretenières, both in France, developed a…
A group at the Open University, led by Professor Andy Lane, has taken the first systematic look at what large-scale, commodity farmers – not those mainly…
Patrick Schnable, a Baker Professor of Agronomy and director of the Center for Plant Genomics and the Center for Carbon Capturing Crops, and Srinivas Aluru, a…
Carbon sequestration in soil has been recognized by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the European Commission as one of the possible measures…
Professor Howard Atkinson and Dr Peter Urwin from the University of Leeds’ Faculty of Biological Sciences have been awarded £500,000 through the £7 million…
Three out of four poor people in developing countries live in rural areas and most depend on agriculture for their livelihoods. Increasing agricultural…
Researchers are testing oral contraceptives – used in much the same way as in humans – and the results are promising, says Duane Kraemer, a professor in…
The solution presented enables a farmer to create contract documents and transmit them to service providers and contract partners using the Internet….
The new method extends a procedure familiar to biologists that involves investigating species numbers in relation to area (the species-area relationship, or…
Launched on February 22, the Nitrous Oxide Focus Group will engage with many influential organisations including the National Farmers Union, Marks & Spencer,…
Purdue University researchers developed a model, based on a range of possible oil prices, that predicts impacts of federal economic policies on future consumer…
The cultivating of fish and shellfish in artificial ponds has increased dramatically in the last few decades, apace with the ever greater depletion of fish…
Michel Aubé and colleagues from Université Laval and Institut national de santé publique in Québec, Canada have published findings suggesting that DDT’s main…
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