Keeping nitrogen fertilizer on farm fields, to support optimum crop growth, and out of streams and rivers is no simple formula. It's complex. "Think 'writing a novel' versus 'writing a recipe,' " said Matthew Helmers, an associate ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
One of the biggest jobs facing agricultural producers these days is trying to tell their stories to consumers. With only two percent of Americans involved in production agriculture, their voices have a tendency to get lost in all the ...
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As experts continue to sound alarm bells about the rising resistance of microbes to antibiotics used by humans, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday announced it was curbing the use of the drugs in livestock nationwide. "FDA ...
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A coalition of agricultural organizations led by the National Pork Producers Council is likely to oppose a final Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement if it includes Japan but that country doesn’t agree to comprehensive ...
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The president of tWorks suggests, by recognizing how cultural differences influence communications in the workplace, employers within the Canadian pork industry can avoid the miscommunications that can often lead to problems within a ...
The USDA Economic Research Service (ERS) and Foreign Agriculture Service (FAS) released the latest beef trade data last week. The data for October, the latest month available, showed beef and veal exports up 5.4% over last year with the ...
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If grassland is managed intensively, biodiversity typically declines. A new study led by Bernese plant ecologists shows that it is rare species that suffer the most. These negative effects could be reduced, if farmers varied the intensity ...
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Members of the U.S.Biotech Crops Alliance,a collaborative effort to improve the environment for technology innovation and the market for U.S.crops produced through modern biotechnology,met in Washington this week to discuss recent progress ...
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Key Competitors' Wheat Output Boosted This Month World wheat production forecast for 2013/14 soared 5.0 million tons this month to 711.4 million, exceeding the record wheat output of 2011/12 by 14.1 million tons and surpassing that year's ...
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Dairy producer WhiteWave Foods has announced plans to pay about $600 million to purchase Earthbound Farm, the largest organic produce brand in the U.S. Earthbound Farm was the producer behind the 2006 spinach E. coli outbreak that ...
Justus von Liebig's Law of the Minimum is an agronomic theory that states yield is proportional to the amount of the most limiting nutrient - whichever nutrient it may be. As a soils and crops consultant, it means I am going to tell you to ...
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On-farm internships and land-link programs are two important models for increasing the number of farmers in the sustainable-agriculture movement, according to researchers in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences. The majority of ...
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The exports of cotton from Egypt decreased by 38.8 percent during June-August 2013 period, according to the data from the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS). Egypt exported 91,600 quintal of cotton during ...
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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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Low corn prices on the heels of near-record yields this year could mean increased demand from ethanol producers, export markets and biofuels consumers, Purdue University Extension agricultural economist Chris Hurt says. A proposal by the ...
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