Agricultural Production/Economics

Credit: K. Koehler-Cole Cover crop impacts on soil properties depends on cover crop productivity. Planting cover crops early and in a diverse mix of species could be an option to boost biomass production and enhance benefits to…

The practice can create healthier soils, save water and yield more almondsCredit: Brent Holtz, UCANR Recycling trees onsite can sequester carbon, save water and increase crop yields, making it a climate-smart practice for California's…

Sustainable: KIT-coordinated transnational network studies chemical signals between pathogen and plant -- EU funding in the amount of EUR 500,000Credit: Alexandra Wolf, KIT Increasing drought and heat seriously affect plants.…

Shifting away from petroleum-based synthetic materialsCredit: Hitachi Zosen Corporation JST has announced that the development subject "Manufacturing Technology for New Plant-Origin Functional Materials", in the Newly extended…

Credit: Jacynthe Dessureault-Rompre In many regions of the world, farming must be done on areas of soil categorized as histosols. Histosols have a thick layer of rich organic matter, called peat. Scientists are concerned,…

New research to enhance chicken-raising practicesCredit: Photo courtesy the USDA ARS, image k10003-7 by S. Ausmus. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Smile, chickens. You're soon to be on candid camera. Hao Gan, a biosystems engineer with the…

More sustainable production method reduces costs for fuel, laborCredit: John Wallace/Penn State Organic soybean producers using no-till and reduced-tillage production methods that incorporate cover crops -- strategies that…

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Severe flooding throughout the Midwest--which triggered a delayed growing season for crops in the region--led to a reduction of 100 million metric tons of net carbon uptake during June and July of 2019,…

Credit: Ivan Shishkin; Tretyakov Gallery While Russia seems to have successfully tackled its historic problem: food shortage - with the agri-food sector becoming one of the most steadily developing of the national economy - the…

Ethanol from agave could be used for transport fuel and hand sanitizerCredit: University of Sydney The agave plant used to make tequila could be established in semi-arid Australia as an environmentally friendly solution to…

Study evaluates and quantifies ecosystem service flowsCredit: Janina Kleemann What do chocolate, migratory birds, flood control and pandas have in common? Many countries benefit from ecosystem services provided outside their…

Credit: University of Exeter Pathogenic fungi pose a huge and growing threat to global food security. Currently, we protect our crops against fungal disease by spraying them with anti-fungal chemistries, also known as fungicides.…

Credit: University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences URBANA, Ill. - Pigs have better feed conversion rates with copper in their diets, but until now, scientists didn't fully understand why. Existing…

CABBI researchers have developed three innovative tools to facilitate production of high-value compounds from yeast strain Issatchenkia orientalisCredit: Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Biofuels Innovation (CABBI) Researchers…

Credit: Beverly J. Agtuca, Sylwia A. Stopka, Thalita R. Tuleski, Fernanda P. do Amaral, Sterling Evans, Yang Liu, Dong Xu, Rose Adele Monteiro, David W. Koppenaal, Ljiljana Paša-Toli?, Christopher R. Anderton,... Crop yields have…

The report says that since 1970, large areas of land have been urbanized, and this strains quality of life in every region As cities physically expanded worldwide between 1970 and 2010, the population in those cities became less dense,…

"We are living through an explosion in the availability of microbiome data," according to JP Dundore-Arias, assistant professor of plant pathology at California State University, Monterey Bay. "In agricultural systems, the proliferation…

Not all information is equal An analysis out of the University of Georgia details the relationship between consumer awareness and the attentiveness and care given to pollinator-friendly plant purchases. Benjamin Campbell and William…

The BESS-STAIR framework, developed by CABBI researchers at the University of Illinois, was tested in 12 sites across the US Corn Belt and achieved unprecedented accuracyCredit: The Center for Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts Innovation…

Catastrophic shock to US agriculture would deplete reserves, including those of other countries The American Dust Bowl of the 1930s - captured by the novels of John Steinbeck - was an environmental and socio-economic disaster that worsened…