If farmers don't move their corn north, the more frequent heat waves could lead to bigger swings in corn prices – “price volatility” – which cause spikes in…
Azinphos-methyl (AZM) has been the most used insecticide in apple production in the United States since the late 1960s, primarily as a control for the codling…
This competition has sparked concern for the more fundamental issue of allocating limited farmland resources, which has far-reaching implications for food…
“We’ve been working to create trees that grow faster and produce more wood, and what this research shows is that at the same time we’re enhancing environmental…
An increasing number of crops commercially grown today are genetically modified (GM) to resist insect pests and/or tolerate herbicides. Although Bt corn is one…
Susan Allen, a professor in the UC Department of Anthropology who co-directs SANAP, says she and co-director Ilirjan Gjipali of the Albanian Institute of…
“We wanted to determine the energy concentration and digestibility of phosphorus in whey powder, in conventional whey permeate, and in low-ash whey permeate…
New research into the impact of climate change on Chinese cereal crops has found rainfall has a greater impact than rising temperature. The research, published…
The breakthrough, published today in the Canadian Journal of Forest Research, is the first known use of in vitro culture technology to clone buds of mature…
In their report, the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change proposes specific policy responses to the global challenge of feeding a world…
Agreement will provide education, health, economic development, and fire prevention for local people in exchange for conservation measuresForest is home to…
Waste water management plays a significant role here. For the vintner, conscious handling of water resources means considerable saving potential and for…
Ongoing efforts to reintroduce the American Chestnut are labor intensive and expensive, in part because they rely on genetic cross breeding to produce a tree…
Sludge from waste water treatment, ash from biomass combustion, metallurgical waste, and barley straw have been used . The new substrates were found to have…
Carlos Corvalan, an associate professor of food science, said understanding how the additives work together means they could be designed to decrease the…
The new antibiotic, an analog of the widely used food preservative nisin, also has potential to be a boon to the dairy industry as a treatment for bovine…
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