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Soil determines fate of phosphorous
Dec 19, 2012 (SPX)
Just 20 years ago, the soils of the Amazon basin were thought unsuitable for large-scale agriculture, but then industrial agriculture - and the ability to ferti...
Three Bacterial Strains Common to Grapevines and Sugarcane Decoded
Dec 19, 2012 (SPX)
Scientists at Rochester Institute of Technology have published the whole genome sequence of bacteria associated with Jamaican sugarcane and Riesling grapevines ...
Argentine corn exports blocked by China
Dec 18, 2012 (UPI)
Argentina and China are in talks to resolve differences over Argentine corn exports said to contain genetically modified strains of the grain. Chinese officials...
Building better barley
Dec 18, 2012 (SPX)
As one of the top 10 barley producers in the world, Canada faces a problem of adapting to the 'new normal' of a warmer, drier climate. The 2012 growing season w...
Fertile soil doesn't fall from the sky
Dec 17, 2012 (SPX)
Remains of dead bacteria have far greater meaning for soils than previously assumed. Around 40 per cent of the microbial biomass is converted to organic soil co...
Dead or alive? A new test to determine viability of soybean rust spores
Dec 14, 2012 (SPX)
Spores from Asian soybean rust (Phakopsora pachyrhizi) pose a serious threat to soybean production in the United States because they can be blown great distance...
Brazil fears mad cow case will force cut in beef prices
Dec 14, 2012 (AFP)
Brazil is worried that fears over a single case of mad cow disease from more than two years ago could force it to slash its beef prices, after China, Japan and ...
Chemical analysis reveals first cheese making in Northern Europe in the 6th millennium BC
Dec 14, 2012 (SPX)
The first unequivocal evidence that humans in prehistoric Northern Europe made cheese more than 7,000 years ago is described in research by an international tea...
China, S.Africa suspend Brazil beef imports: source
Dec 13, 2012 (AFP)
China and South Africa have joined Japan in suspending imports of Brazilian beef over an atypical case of mad cow disease, an official from the agriculture mini...
Antibiotic-eating bug unearthed in soil
Dec 12, 2012 (SPX)
It's well known how bacteria exposed to antibiotics for long periods will find ways to resist the drugs-by quickly pumping them out of their cells, for instance...
Quantifying corn rootworm damage
Dec 12, 2012 (SPX)
Every year farmers spend a lot of money trying to control corn rootworm larvae, which are a significant threat to maize production in the United States and, mor...
Supporting Climate-Friendly Food Production
Dec 12, 2012 (SPX)
This summer, record temperatures and limited rainfall parched vast areas of U.S. cropland, and with Earth's surface air temperature projected to rise 0.69 degre...
Typhoon reduces Philippine farmers to beggars
Dec 11, 2012 (AFP)
The secluded valley that sheltered Jerry Blanco's banana crop from communist and Muslim rebellions offered no refuge from Typhoon Bopha, which left him destitut...
Japan firm recalls China tea on pesticide fears
Dec 11, 2012 (AFP)
Japanese food company Ito En on Tuesday issued a huge recall of Chinese-grown tea after some of it was found to contain illegal levels of pesticide residue. The...
EU ag interests disagree on supply chain
Dec 10, 2012 (UPI)
European agribusiness interests and farmers say they can't agree on proposed EU enforcement powers to tackle food supply chain "unfair trade practices." A high-...
Destroy lab stocks of eradicated cattle disease: OIE
Dec 10, 2012 (AFP)
Most remaining laboratory stocks of a devastating cattle disease should be destroyed to ensure the eradicated virus is not back into nature, the World Organisat...
Environmental hangover from Indonesia's palm oil thirst
Dec 08, 2012 (AFP)
The roar of chainsaws has replaced birdsong, the once-lush, green jungle scorched to a barren grey. The equivalent of six football pitches of forest is lost eve...
Bye bye Mediterranean diet, the poorest can't afford it anymore
Dec 07, 2012 (SPX)
Recently the Mediterranean diet has achieved lots of distinctions, from the inclusion by the UNESCO in the Olympus of the World heritage list to a long series o...
Prioritizing rather than canvassing entire plant genome may lead to improved crops
Dec 07, 2012 (SPX)
A new study may help scientists produce better climate-resistant corn and other food production plants by putting a spin on the notion that we are what we eat. ...
Plant Stress Paints Early Picture of Drought
Dec 07, 2012 (SPX)
In July 2012, farmers in the U.S. Midwest and Plains regions watched crops wilt and die after a stretch of unusually low precipitation and high temperatures. Be...
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