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Crops can do their own weed control
Jan 15, 2015 (SPX)
In conventional farming, the most frequently used herbicides for weed control have a negative impact on the environment. On the other hand, organic farmers enli...
More birds culled as Taiwan battles worst avian flu in 10 years
Jan 14, 2015 (AFP)
A major outbreak of avian flu in Taiwan has spread to 19 more farms with a total of 160,000 birds slaughtered in the island's worst bout of the disease in a dec...
Chitosan, a sustainable alternative for food packaging
Jan 13, 2015 (SPX)
Food items are covered with plastic films to make them last longer and protect them from microbes. The environment, however, is seriously affected by the use of...
Taiwan culls 6,000 more geese to curb bird flu outbreak
Jan 13, 2015 (AFP)
Taiwan on Tuesday slaughtered nearly 6,000 geese after 14 more farms were confirmed to have been infected in the latest outbreak of avian influenza that has led...
Brazil coffee production struggles after drought
Jan 13, 2015 (AFP)
Brazil, the world's largest coffee producer, will deliver a 2015 harvest in line with that achieved last year but well down from 2013 following months of drough...
Research finds salt tolerance gene in soybean
Jan 13, 2015 (SPX)
A collaborative research project between Australian and Chinese scientists has shown how soybean can be bred to better tolerate soil salinity. The researchers, ...
EU lawmakers pass controversial GMO food law
Jan 13, 2015 (AFP)
EU lawmakers on Tuesday approved controversial legislation to allow EU member states to decide for themselves whether to allow cultivation of Genetically Modifi...
Brazil drought brews trouble for coffee market
Jan 11, 2015 (AFP)
Brazil's coffee harvest last year was hit by one the country's worst droughts in decades, with effects on the world's largest producer now threatening to spill ...
Ancient maize followed two paths into the Southwest
Jan 11, 2015 (SPX)
After it was first domesticated from the wild teosinte grass in southern Mexico, maize, or corn, took both a high road and a coastal low road as it moved into w...
Thousands more poultry culled as bird flu fears grow in Taiwan
Jan 11, 2015 (AFP)
Taiwan on Sunday ordered the slaughter of 16,000 geese and ducks to try to curb a bird flu outbreak that has already led to the culling of 120,000 chickens. Aau...
Beating back the desert in Burkina Faso, field by field
Jan 09, 2015 (AFP)
In Burkina Faso, what was once stony semi-wasteland is now covered in verdant crop fields, rescued from relentless desertification. Using simple agricultural te...
Humans erode soil 100 times faster than nature
Jan 08, 2015 (SPX)
A new study shows that removing native forest and starting intensive agriculture can accelerate erosion so dramatically that in a few decades as much soil is lo...
Grain market mystery solved
Jan 07, 2015 (SPX)
Something extraordinary happened in the futures grain market beginning in 2005. The cash price and futures price, which normally converge by the time a grain co...
Fructose more toxic than table sugar in mice
Jan 06, 2015 (SPX)
When University of Utah biologists fed mice sugar in doses proportional to what many people eat, the fructose-glucose mixture found in high-fructose corn syrup ...
Seeds out of season
Jan 06, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers have created a model that considers how different stages of a plant's life cycle interact with each other. Whereas previous studies have examined th...
China abolishes tobacco price controls: govt
Jan 05, 2015 (AFP)
China has abolished price controls on tobacco leaf, the last agricultural product to have limits, the country's top economic planner said as authorities seek to...
Why are there spots on my apple? Science explains
Jan 05, 2015 (UPI)
A new study suggests late season surface water is to blame for the spots that appear on many varieties of apples. The skin spots in question are not the large b...
Seek muscular male with quality rump? Try online dating for bulls
Jan 01, 2015 (AFP)
Described as blond, muscular and from a good family, Bariton's online profile has caught the eye of Sylvain Frobert, who is thinking of hooking him up with Anit...
Maasai kill six lions after livestock attack
Jan 01, 2015 (AFP)
Angry Maasai herders in Tanzania killed six lions that had attacked livestock, in the latest clash between man and beast in the region. The government said it w...
Hong Kong culls 19,000 birds amid avian flu alert
Dec 31, 2014 (AFP)
Hong Kong culled thousands of chickens Wednesday after the potentially deadly H7N9 bird flu virus was discovered in poultry imported from China, days after a wo...
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