FARM NEWS - AFRICA DAILY

Mar 06, 2014 (SPX)

Cows learn better when housed together, which may help them adjust faster to complex new feeding and milking technologies on the modern farm, a new University o...

Homogeneity of food has serious implications for farming and nutrition

Mar 05, 2014 (SPX)

A comprehensive new study of global food supplies confirms and thoroughly documents for the first time what experts have long suspected: over the last five deca...

New invasive species breakthrough sparks interest around the world

Mar 05, 2014 (SPX)

A research breakthrough at Queen's University Belfast has sparked interest among aquatic biologists, zoologists and ecologists around the world. The joint resea...

GM spuds beat blight

Mar 05, 2014 (SPX)

In a three-year GM research trial, scientists boosted resistance of potatoes to late blight, their most important disease, without deploying fungicides. The fin...

Sensor-based irrigation systems show potential to increase greenhouse profitability

Mar 05, 2014 (SPX)

Wireless sensor-based irrigation systems can offer significant benefits to greenhouse operators. Advances in sensor technology and increased understanding of pl...

Understanding the effects of smoke compounds on seed germination

Mar 05, 2014 (SPX)

Although seemingly destructive, wildfires help to maintain biodiversity and are an important element of many ecosystems throughout the world. Not only do fires ...

Permafrost to protect the biodiversity of the Earth

Mar 05, 2014 (Voice of Russia)

Samples of 20 thousand plants from 100 countries have been added to the world's largest collection of agricultural plants. Neither a flood nor nuclear explosion...

Food production in the northeastern US may need to change if climate does

Mar 05, 2014 (SPX)

If significant climate change occurs in the United States it may be necessary to change where certain foods are produced in order to meet consumer demand. In a ...

French trufflers rise up in defence of their black diamonds

Mar 04, 2014 (AFP)

French truffle growers are up in arms over cheaper imports from China which they say are being doctored by unscrupulous chefs and passed off fraudulently as the...

Bison ready for new pastures?

Mar 04, 2014 (SPX)

new study from the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services (APHIS) and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) demonstrates that it is possible to qual...

Better livestock diets to combat climate change and improve food security

Feb 28, 2014 (SPX)

Livestock production is responsible for 12% of human-related greenhouse gas emissions, primarily coming from land use change and deforestation caused by expansi...

Australian canola case shows GM crops are still being demonised

Feb 27, 2014 (TCM)

Once again, genetically modified crops are in the news for all the wrong reasons. In Western Australia's Supreme Court, organic farmer Steve Marsh is suing his ...

Seed dispersal gets a test in carved-out 'habitat corridors'

Feb 27, 2014 (SPX)

Field ecologists go to great lengths to get data: radio collars and automatic video cameras are only two of their creative techniques for documenting the natura...

China bans Polish pork amid African swine fever scare

Feb 27, 2014 (AFP)

China has banned pork imports from Poland, a leading EU exporter of the meat, after Warsaw confirmed its first two cases of African swine fever among wild boars...

Managed honeybees linked to new diseases in wild bees

Feb 27, 2014 (SPX)

Diseases that are common in managed honeybee colonies are now widespread in the UK's wild bumblebees, according to research published in Nature. The study sugge...

Revolutionary new view on heritability in plants

Feb 26, 2014 (SPX)

Complex heritable traits are not only determined by changes in the DNA sequence. Scientists from the University of Groningen Bioinformatics Centre, together wit...

Sweden slams EU for delay on hormone disrupting chemicals

Feb 26, 2014 (AFP)

Sweden threatened Wednesday to sue the European Commission over a delay in identifying harmful chemicals in everyday products. The Commission was supposed to se...

Genetic discovery to keep crops disease-free

Feb 25, 2014 (SPX)

Curtin University researchers have found a way to breed disease-resistant wheat with no downside, potentially bringing multi-million dollar savings to Australia...

Roots to Shoots: Hormone transport in plants deciphered

Feb 25, 2014 (SPX)

Plant growth is orchestrated by a spectrum of signals from hormones within a plant. A major group of plant hormones called cytokinins originate in the roots of ...

Tomatoes watered by the sea: sprouting a new way of farming

Feb 25, 2014 (TCM)

Isn't it remarkable that we recognise the fact that the world faces huge problems in terms of water, energy and food security - and yet we tend to tackle these ...