FARM NEWS - AFRICA DAILY

Nov 16, 2012 (SPX)

Older North American farmers work fewer hours than their younger peers but spend more time operating heavy machinery and equipment-raising their risk of serious...

Climate change increases stress, need for restoration on grazed public lands

Nov 16, 2012 (SPX)

Eight researchers in a new report have suggested that climate change is causing additional stress to many western rangelands, and as a result land managers shou...

In Mexico City, a green revolution, one lettuce at a time

Nov 15, 2012 (AFP)

A green revolution is sweeping across the car and concrete jungle of Mexico City, an infamously smoggy capital that was once dubbed "Makesicko City" by novelist...

Eating of soil and raw starch in Madagascar

Nov 14, 2012 (SPX)

Pica - craving and intentionally consuming nonfood substances, such as earth - and amylophagy, eating raw starches - are widespread among people around the worl...

Texas cotton getting a genetic 'tune-up'

Nov 14, 2012 (SPX)

Can you imagine trying to build a competitive race car with old parts? Chances are, the entry would not fare well at the Indy 500. Very much the same thing migh...

The Phosphorus Index: Changes afoot

Nov 14, 2012 (SPX)

Phosphorus (P) is both an essential nutrient in agricultural fields and a contributor to poor water quality in surface waters. To encourage improved P managemen...

CSHL-led team discovers new way in which plants control flower production

Nov 14, 2012 (SPX)

Flowers don't just catch our eyes, they catch those of pollinators like bees as well. They have to, in order to reproduce. Because plants need to maximize the o...

Issues Associated with Least Toxic Pesticides Applied as a Last Resort

Nov 14, 2012 (SPX)

Recommendations and decisions to use "least toxic pesticides" and "pesticides as a last resort" have flourished in the last decade, but according to three scien...

Nov 14, 2012 (SPX)

An accurate estimation of nitrous oxide and methane emissions from beef cattle feedlots is an increasing concern given the current and potential future reportin...

Sustainable land-use concept for South America

Nov 14, 2012 (SPX)

In the world of agriculture, climate protection and intensive farming are generally assumed to be a contradiction in terms. At Technische Universitat Munchen (T...

Gene find turns soldier beetle defence into biotech opportunity

Nov 14, 2012 (SPX)

New antibiotic and anti-cancer chemicals may one day be synthesised using biotechnology, following CSIRO's discovery of the three genes that combine to provide ...

S. America weather upsets soy crop yields

Nov 13, 2012 (UPI)

Weather is upsetting expectations of crop yields in Argentina, Brazil and neighboring countries, all of whom depend on commodity exports for significant parts o...

Morocco's 'liquid gold' enriches Berber women

Nov 13, 2012 (AFP)

In a poor but fertile corner of southern Morocco, illiterate Berber women are tapping the surge in global demand for argan oil, a "miracle" product they grind f...

Malaysia slams proposed 300% French Nutella palm tax

Nov 12, 2012 (AFP)

Malaysia'a official Palm Oil Council on Monday slammed as "irresponsible" and "badly informed" a French senator's call to slap a 300-percent tax increase on pal...

Carbon buried in the soil rises again

Nov 12, 2012 (SPX)

A research team that includes a University of California, Davis, plant scientist has identified a source of carbon emissions that could play a role in understan...

Walker's World: Food crisis again

Nov 12, 2012 (UPI)

Driven by bad wheat and a serious collapse the Siberian harvest, world wheat prices have risen more than 40 percent since January and are once more flirting wit...

Arabica coffee could be extinct in the wild within 70 years

Nov 09, 2012 (SPX)

A study conducted by scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (UK), in collaboration with scientists in Ethiopia, reports that climate change alone could le...

Brazil's top farmers group to open office in China

Nov 08, 2012 (AFP)

Brazil's main farming association said on Thursday it would open a representative office in Beijing next week in a bid to boost exports to the growing Chinese c...

Scientists Identify Insect-repelling Compounds in Jatropha

Nov 08, 2012 (SPX)

A tip about a folk remedy plant used in India and Africa to ward off bugs has led to the discovery of insect-repelling compounds. U.S. Department of Agriculture...

Honeybees harbor antibiotic-resistance genes

Nov 07, 2012 (SPX)

Bacteria in the guts of honeybees are highly resistant to the antibiotic tetracycline, probably as a result of decades of preventive antibiotic use in domestica...