The University of Florida's (UF) Blueberry Breeding Program has been developing successful blueberry cultivars for more than 60 years.The cultivars released…
A University of Illinois study recommends a framework for contracts between growers and biorefineries to help spell out expectations for sustainability…
A new study has revealed that global warming is resulting in the spread of crop pests towards the North and South Poles at a rate of nearly 3 km a year. The…
In the 1970s, red spruce was the forest equivalent of a canary in the coal mine, signaling that acid rain was damaging forests and that some species,…
Those findings are part of a recently published study by David Steward, professor of civil engineering, and colleagues at Kansas State University. The study…
Over the last few years, the use of nanomaterials for water treatment, food packaging, pesticides, cosmetics and other industries has increased. For example,…
Animal sciences researcher Phil Cardoso said that this line of research was the result of an “accident.” Students in animal sciences professor James Drackley's…
Can beef and sheep production keep pace with increasing demand and reflect growing concerns about natural resource use? This was one of the central questions…
Jatropha has seeds with high oil content. But the oil's potential as a biofuel is limited because, for large-scale production, this shrub-like plant needs the…
India has 17 percent of the world‘s population but only 3 percent of the world‘s land area, so it relies on efficient farming to feed its population. Seeds…
“There is a 34 percent undercapacity of soybean storage, and the situation is aggravated by the rapidly increasing production of second-crop maize,” said…
A new study published in the July-August issue of Agronomy Journal describes a robust model that uses easily obtained measurements, such as plant morphology…
But as a special collection of papers in the July-August issue of the Journal of Environmental Quality (JEQ) points out, these achievements have come at a…
The agriculture industry is researching new technologies to help feed the growing population. But feeding the world without harming air quality is a challenge.According to a new article in Animal Frontiers, biotechnologies increase food production and reduce harmful gas output from cattle….
The five-year, $3.5 million project funded by NASA will make use of existing satellite imagery to produce the first-ever global survey of croplands. Northern…
Most of the rural areas in transition countries are characterised by an inadequate infrastructure and service provision, weak employment and income growth, a…
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