To that end you need plant material that you know comes from a specific region and also which year it grew in. Wine is the ideal research material, thought…
Organisms such as E coli may be present in animal manure and can pose a serious threat to human health. Irrigated crops are sometimes contaminated,…
These are some of the questions being asked exclusively of people in Nottinghamshire in a major new study, by a researcher at The University of Nottingham.PhD…
‘Crops for the Future’ has evolved from a union of the International Centre for Underutilised Crops (ICUC) and the Global Facilitation Unit for Underutilized…
She shows that farmers are experiencing uncertainty regarding their right to use the land following the latest land reform program, instead of a sense of…
It is the first documented baseline compilation of the distributions of all snail and slug species associated with the horticultural industry throughout the…
One of the biggest threats to today’s farmlands is the loss of soil organic carbon (SOC) and soil organic matter (SOM) from poor land-management practices.The…
Organic food is all the rage, but despite popular opinion it’s not automatically safer than conventionally grown foods. A team from several institutions led by…
No food processor wants pathogens contaminating the product in the plant for at least one obvious reason; the product on sale at retail might carry the risk of…
Kansas State University surveyed 2,000 people by mail in Wichita, Kan., and Los Angeles – 1,000 in each city – to find out their reactions to various food…
The results identify how the main features of the countryside have changed and include fields, woods, ponds, heath and moorland areas as well as linear…
Genetic mapping of cattle aims to identify genetic forms that are linked to quantitative trait loci (QTL) which are important for breeding purposes. Sirja…
Mario Biondini, professor in the School of Natural Resource Sciences at North Dakota State University (NDSU), Fargo, has developed a three-dimensional model…
That discovery has important implications for both rice-producing and wheat-producing regions. If red color and dormancy in wheat are controlled by a single…
Ireland’s scientific researchers are punching above their weight on the world stage and are quietly making a significant contribution to the improvement of our…
Scott Irwin says agriculture’s fortunes are now tethered more to ethanol than food, making crop growers vulnerable to sharp price swings at filling stations…
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