Agricultural Production/Economics

Sreedhar Upendram recognized for significant advancement of community development in TennesseeCredit: Image courtesy UTIA. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Sreedhar Upendram, assistant professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource…

Credit: David Thoms, Yan Liang, and Cara H. Haney Plants are constantly exposed to microbes: pathogens that cause disease, commensals that cause no harm or benefit, and mutualists that promote plant growth or help fend off pathogens.…

Journal of Dairy Science® reports development of a modified milk calibration sample set to improve accuracy of milk urea nitrogen testing Champaign, IL, June 10, 2021 - Present in blood, urine, and milk, the chemical compound urea is the…

Global ecosystem restoration efforts are often measured by billions of trees planted or square kilometers of land restored. But there is a critical void in the agenda: The social and political dimensions that make restoration a…

Study reviews best practices for growersCredit: Hector Amezcua/UC Davis Wine grape growers in California and elsewhere face increasing labor costs and severe labor shortages, making it difficult to manage and harvest a vineyard while…

The success of Classical Biological Control in the Western Paleartic ecozone is rarely dependent on the released biological control agent, but more often on other factors, such as the target pest, its host plant, or the circumstances of the…

Benign infection can potentially send medicine into plantsCredit: Gerardo Uribe/UCR Scientists are hoping the RNA of an obscure infection can one day be used like a Trojan horse to deliver life-saving treatments to citrus trees. The…

Increasing crop production without clearing new fields transforms Brazilian agricultureCredit: Photo illustration by Tammy Beeson From 1980 to 2016, grain production in Brazil increased more than fourfold, and the country now stands as the…

Researchers from CRAG and IRTA find the gene that determines Japanese plum skin colour due to the presence or absence of anthocyanins, a group of plant antioxidant pigments with health-promoting effectsCredit: CRAG-IRTA The presence…

CORVALLIS, Ore. - Since the end of the long-running conflict in Colombia, large areas of forest have been rapidly converted to agricultural uses, suggesting the peace agreement presents a threat to conservation the country's rainforest, a…

Greenhouse gases from food production are systematically underestimated, researchers sayCredit: From Tubiello et al., Environmental Research Letters 2021 A new global analysis says that greenhouse-gas emissions from food systems have…

Credit: Douglas S. Higgins, Ross J. Hatlen, Jan M. Byrne, Monique L. Sakalidis, Timothy D. Miles, and Mary K. Hausbeck If you're a beer drinker, you've noticed that hoppy beers have become increasingly popular. Most of the nation's…

Credit: Cornell University ITHACA, N.Y. - As soon as an ear of corn is taken off its stalk or a potato is pulled from the ground, it travels anywhere from a few miles to across continents and sometimes undergoes processes that…

The device was used for the first time to culture two maternal endometrial cell types, revealing the effects of alterations in glucose and insulin levels in the uterine environmentCredit: Tiago Henrique Camara de Bem To investigate…

Credit: Jianming Yu AMES, Iowa - Scientists have invested great time and effort into making connections between a plant's genotype, or its genetic makeup, and its phenotype, or the plant's observable traits. Understanding a plant's genome…

Credit: The 'Tracking Cultural and Environmental Change project'. New research has revealed the genetic makeup of the earliest goat herds. The findings, assimilated from DNA taken from the remains of 32 goats that died some 10,000…

'Agriculture Sector Technology Roadmap' addresses challenges for treating and reusing water in agricultural applications Though 71% of the Earth is covered in oceans, humanity's water needs are met by less than 1% of the planet's total…

Credit: Lene H. Koss A new research project, PROFERMENT, run by the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen, has received DKK 56 million from the Novo Nordisk Foundation to develop the fundamental knowledge required to…

A new research project SEEDFOOD will attempt to change this by creating new fundamental knowledge, so we can use the proteins for food in the future. The research project has been established with a grant of DKK 56 million kroner GRANT: In…

Credit: Angela Gallego-Sala A new study shows that substantial amounts of carbon dioxide were released during the last millennium because of crop cultivation on peatlands in the Northern Hemisphere. Only about half of the carbon…