Now, an international team of scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and the Institute of Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas…
The practice of no-till has increased considerably during the past 20 yr. Soils under no-till usually host a more abundant and diverse biota and are less prone…
Four tons of seeds – almost 90,000 samples of hundreds of crop species – from food crop collections maintained by Canada, Ireland, Switzerland, USA, and three…
In a paper published today in the prestigious journal Science, scientists from CSIRO Plant Industry, the University of Zurich and the International Maize and…
By shredding corn stover instead of chopping, as is commonly done, about 40 percent less energy is needed to gain access to more of the material stored in the…
In the new study, Rodat Cunningham and colleagues note that the European Union banned use of growth-promoting agents in cattle. However, widespread abuse of…
Washington's famous apple industry brought in $1.4 billion in 2006, but a disease is cutting into those profits.Lenticel breakdown disorder, known as LB,…
As the popularity of organic produce increases with consumers, growers need more options to manage pests naturally.John D. Sedlacek and Gary R. Cline (retired)…
Deficit irrigation is an agricultural technique used to achieve a variety of results depending on the crop. For white wine grapes, it balances the crop load by…
Grasslands in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) in the United States may be increasingly converted to growing bioenergy grain crops. Questions abound…
Promoting genetic diversity in crops is traditional practice for agriculture professionals, and with today’s technology, scientists are able to develop…
Well, it is not private ownership of the land that makes them invest. What Chinese farmers value most and what attracts them to investments that can raise…
Building on plant virus research started more than 20 years ago, a biologist at Washington University in St. Louis and his colleague at the Donald Danforth…
In the late 1990s the Finnish Yorkshire pig population was threatened by a genetic defect which spread at an alarming rate and led to infertility. The…
As the world seeks new ways to prevent and treat chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and cancer, more research continues to be conducted on the…
These crops have continued to grow in production value, but this growth has not been matched by growth in public agricultural research spending. In fact,…
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