Organic farming or flower strips – which is better for bees?
How effective environmental measures in agriculture are for biodiversity and wild bee populations depends on various factors and your perspective. ...
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The transition to dairy farming and horse husbandry may have fueled the rise of complex societies in Bronze Age Mongolia
The transition to dairy farming and horse husbandry may have fueled the rise of complex societies in Bronze Age Mongolia ...
“Vertical farming will play a role in future food production”
Professor Asseng, vertical farming allows food production to be fully uncoupled from soil and external climate influences. What possibilities and ...
UT Institute of Agriculture to host 2023 US precision livestock farming conference
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – The University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture will host the 2023 U.S. Precision Livestock Farming Conference. The ...
Virtual tours make pig farming more transparent
Many people would like to see better animal welfare and transparency in livestock farming. In recent years, agriculture has increasingly ...
Transforming farming with farmer led experimentation
Agricultural scientists are changing the way they think about how and why they do field research. A recent article published in Nature Food suggests that a ...
Ancient Mesopotamian discovery transforms knowledge of early farming
New Brunswick, N.J. (Jan. 11, 2022) – Rutgers researchers have unearthed the earliest definitive evidence of broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum) in ...
City allotments match farming productivity per square metre
A citizen science project by the University of Sussex has found that urban growers in Brighton and Hove were able to harvest 1kg ...
New documentation of dramatic climate changes at the end of the last ice age sheds light on the transition from nomadic hunter-gatherer to settlement and farming societies
Using plant remains researchers reconstruct Land of Israel climate at the end of the last ice ageCredit: Sasha Flit/Tel Aviv ...
Protease shows promise as feed additive for poultry farming
Proteases are one of the most innovative products used to improve the efficiency of feed additives. Due to their hydrolytic ...
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Climate change reveals unique artefacts in melting ice patches
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Congratulations to the 2022 American Ornithological Society (AOS) award winners
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University of Kentucky receives renewed $11.4 million grant to further cancer research
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Tiny robotic crab is smallest-ever remote-controlled walking robot
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New NYU Abu Dhabi research could make cancer treatments more efficient
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Community-led science uncovers high air pollution from fracking in Ohio county