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Radish cover crop traps nitrogen; mystery follows
May 31, 2018 (SPX)
Cover crops are grown between main crops such as wheat, corn, or soybeans when the soil would otherwise be bare. Cover crops can control erosion, build soil, an...
OLEDs could boost vertical farm efficiency by 20 per cent
May 31, 2018 (SPX)
vFarm, by design student Jonny Reader, 21, uses OLEDs - organic light-emitting diodes - and smart automation to significantly reduce the amount of power used in...
Sugarcane pest produces foam to protect itself from heat
May 31, 2018 (SPX)
Researchers at the University of Sao Paulo's Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture (ESALQ-USP), in collaboration with colleagues at the same university's Sao C...
Hail storms batter French champagne makers
May 30, 2018 (AFP)
The northeastern Champagne region experienced four particularly heavy hail storms in late April and May just as the vines were beginning to flower. "So far 1,80...
Virtual safe space to help bumblebees
May 29, 2018 (SPX)
Bumble-BEEHAVE provides a computer simulation of how colonies will develop and react to multiple factors including pesticides, parasites and habitat loss. The t...
France vows to outlaw glyphosate weedkillers within 3 years
May 29, 2018 (AFP)
The weedkiller, introduced in the 1970s by US agro-giant Monsanto under the brand name Roundup, is suspected by some scientists of causing cancer, with a 2015 W...
Alibaba shows off automated wine store in Hong Kong
May 29, 2018 (AFP)
Billed by the company as a way to show off its latest smart tech to retailers, customers browsed a pop-up shop stacked with bottles, set up inside the city's co...
'Unprecedented' hailstorm hits Bordeaux winegrowers
May 27, 2018 (AFP)
The bad weather struck around midday on Saturday in the Gironde area where many of France's most well-known red wines originate, as well as further north in the...
A hidden world of communication, chemical warfare, beneath the soil
May 25, 2018 (SPX)
New research shows how some of these harmful microbes have to contend not just with a farmer's chemical attacks, but also with their microscopic neighbors - and...
Long-term study shows crop rotation decreases greenhouse gas emissions
May 25, 2018 (SPX)
"I think farmers in today's world are looking for reasons to avoid growing in a monoculture. They're looking to diversify and rotate their systems. If they're d...
Research suggests sweet potatoes didn't originate in the Americas as previously thought
May 24, 2018 (SPX)
IU Bloomington emeritus professor David Dilcher and colleagues in India identified 57-milion-year-old leaf fossils from eastern India as being from the morning ...
Thailand stops short of banning hazardous weedkillers
May 23, 2018 (AFP)
Paraquat is highly poisonous, with just one sip of the herbicide fatal to humans, and its use has been banned throughout the European Union since 2007. But Thai...
Scientists' new way to identify microscopic worm attacking coffee crops
May 23, 2018 (SPX)
An underestimated problem in coffee farming, the parasite has been found in soil samples across the coffee growing world thanks to a new and quick detection met...
Throwing out food
May 22, 2018 (SPX)
The researchers interviewed Moscow residents aged 21 to 72 from diverse social backgrounds (employed, temporarily unemployed, students, pensioners, homemakers) ...
Some calories more harmful than others
May 22, 2018 (SPX)
It's just one of the conclusions published in Obesity Reviews in a position paper by a group of researchers who participated in the 2017 CrossFit Foundation Aca...
UN, EU call for global action to protect bees
May 19, 2018 (AFP)
"It is not possible to have food security if we don't have pollinators," the head of the UN's Food and Agricultural Organization, Jose Graziano da Silva, told a...
China stops anti-dumping probe into US sorghum
May 18, 2018 (AFP)
Imposing punitive measures would "affect the cost of living of large numbers of (Chinese) consumers and would not be in the public interest", the ministry said ...
French farmers furious over plans to release bears
May 18, 2018 (AFP)
Back in the early 20th century around 150 brown bears roamed the French Pyrenees along the Spanish border, but by the 1990s they had been hunted close to extinc...
A green approach to making ammonia could help feed the world
May 18, 2018 (SPX)
"This new approach can facilitate ammonia production using renewable energy, such as electricity generated from solar or wind," said physics Assistant Professor...
Pesticide resistance needs urgnet attention, large-scale study finds
May 18, 2018 (SPX)
Such landscape studies are now more feasible because of new genomic and technological innovations that could be used to compare the efficacy of strategies for p...
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