Scientists led by experts at Durham University have discovered a natural mechanism in plants that could stimulate their growth even under stress and potentially lead to better crop yields. Plants naturally slow their growth or even stop ...
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EPA Awards Almost Half a Million in Funding to Three Universities for Projects to Reduce Pesticide Risk Including Risks to Bees Louisiana State, Penn State and University of Vermont at the forefront of groundbreaking technology ...
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In a recent Slate article, ASU professors Jim Elser and Bruce Rittman presented two vastly different scenarios of the future. One depicts a world teeming with food insecurity due to rising fertilizer prices and decreasing crop yields and ...
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About 30 percent of the major global cereal crops – rice, wheat and corn -- may have reached their maximum possible yields in farmers' fields, according to UNL research published this week in Nature Communications. These findings ...
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While climate change negotiators struggle to agree on ways to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, they have paid inadequate attention to other greenhouse gases associated with livestock, according to an analysis by an international ...
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Monsanto Company and Novozymes today announce a long-term strategic alliance to transform research and commercialization of sustainable microbial products that will provide a new platform of solutions for growers around the world. The ...
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A couple of researchers from the University of Alberta (U-A) in Canada say they have come up with a novel new way to eventually end the practice of having to apply environmentally-harmful fertilizer chemicals to commercial crops. ...
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Long the standard used in supposed "science-based" agriculture, chemical fertilizers have largely become the norm in modern farming. But these synthetic and man-made varieties are becoming increasingly more expensive and difficult to ...
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Blumberg Grain, a US-based multi-national food security firm, has signed a letter of intent with the Nigerian federal government to invest around $250m in the country's agribusiness sector. The investment will be used for the ...
The AutoCopter™ is a UAV helicopter providing remote sensing of crops using three full-sized cameras (multi-spectral, DSLR and HD Video) while flying a GPS plan for over two hours without the need to refill fuel. After landing, the ...
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LumiGrow announced today that Dutch Heritage Greenhouse, a leading provider of chrysanthemums and other cut flowers, chose 60 LumiGrow Pro 325™ LED greenhouse lights for its Chilliwack, British Columbia facility. By using Pro ...
Brazil and Paraguay will xport soybeans to America. The Midwest of America suffered from drought, which lead the low stock of soybeans. This late-summer period of the Northern Hemisphere, America's stock of soybeans reached bottom in the ...
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A new research report backs the call for greater scrutiny of the impacts of mine-induced subsidence on prime agricultural land. The report, The Risks and Impacts of Coal Mine Subsidence on Irrigation Areas, was launched. It was prepared ...
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Related Media Solutions to hunger in agriculture’s toolbox Whiskey is for drinking; agriculture water is for fighting Paul Harvey still American agriculture’s hero, spokesman Those in the field of agriculture may remember a ...
Australia's $9 billion polymers industry will be boosted by a national cooperative research initiative. The launch featured a novel degradable plastic film that Greening Australia and the Birchip Cropping Group have shown can dramatically ...
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