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Plants really do feed their friends
Apr 12, 2018 (SPX)
"For more than a century, it's been known that plants influence the makeup of their soil microbiome, in part through the release of metabolites into the soil su...
Fixing soybean's need for nitrogen
Apr 11, 2018 (SPX)
To make protein, soybean plants need a lot of nitrogen. The plants get some of the nitrogen they need by working with specialized bacteria in the soil. These ba...
Fishing 'nomads': corralling carp on China's Thousand Island Lake
Apr 11, 2018 (AFP)
So begins the spring fishing season for Ye, who commands around 100 fishing vessels on the lake in Zhejiang province, a picturesque man-made freshwater reservoi...
Hybrid swarm in global mega-pest
Apr 09, 2018 (SPX)
One of the pests, the cotton bollworm, is widespread in Africa, Asia and Europe and causes damage to over 100 crops, including corn, cotton, tomato and soybean....
Satellites, supercomputers, and machine learning provide real-time crop type data
Apr 06, 2018 (SPX)
"If we want to predict corn or soybean production for Illinois or the entire United States, we have to know where they are being grown," says Kaiyu Guan, assist...
In Cambodia, fears tarantula may go off the menu
Apr 06, 2018 (AFP)
Taking a bite out of the plump arachnids has become a popular photo-op for squealing tourists who pass through Skun, the central Cambodian town nicknamed "Spide...
US soybean growers in crosshairs of US-China trade spat
Apr 04, 2018 (AFP)
China is the biggest buyer of US soybeans, ordering about $12 billion worth of the crop in 2017, or about 30 percent of US production. Beijing announced early W...
Bats to blame for pig-killer virus in China: study
Apr 04, 2018 (AFP)
The finding, based on genetic analysis, underlined the urgency of tracking viruses in animal "reservoirs" such as bats, they wrote in the science journal Nature...
UN food agency urges 'agroecology' to fight famine
Apr 03, 2018 (AFP)
Instead, the adoption of "agroecology", which improves soil quality and costs less for farmers, would help reverse growing food insecurity, the Food and Agricul...
Treating women subsistence farmers for intestinal worms will boost food production
Apr 03, 2018 (SPX)
The finding, published online in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, spotlights whether women of child bearing age - who may be especially vu...
Animals rights groups scent blood as fashion labels go fur-free
Mar 31, 2018 (AFP)
With more and more fashion houses going fur-free, San Francisco banning fur sales in the city and British MPs considering outlawing all imports of pelts after B...
Environmentally friendly cattle production
Mar 30, 2018 (SPX)
However, today when cattle congregate, they're often cast as the poster animals for overgrazing, water pollution and an unsustainable industry. While some of th...
El Nino can affect up to two-thirds of the world's harvests
Mar 29, 2018 (SPX)
'During recent years, researchers' ability to predict these oscillations has improved significantly. With this research, we highlight the potential of utilizing...
Agriculture initiated by indigenous peoples, not Fertile Crescent migration
Mar 28, 2018 (SPX)
Professor Douglas Baird and his team discovered the presence of carbonised seeds and phytoliths of wheat chaff at Boncuklu, along with agricultural weeds common...
Breakthrough in battle against rice blast
Mar 28, 2018 (SPX)
An international team led by the University of Exeter showed that chemical genetic inhibition of a single protein in the fungus stops it spreading inside a rice...
Silk Road nomads were the original foodies
Mar 27, 2018 (UPI)
Though most research into the Silk Road frames the phenomenon in terms of traded goods, the route through Medieval Central Asia was formed by interactions betwe...
Scientists to publish first-ever land health report
Mar 26, 2018 (AFP)
The diagnosis is likely to be dire, providing a comprehensive overview of what other reports have already warned: unsustainable farming, mining, factory product...
UN and EU say food insecurity worsens as conflicts rage
Mar 22, 2018 (AFP)
The worst food crises in 2017 were in northeastern Nigeria, Somalia, Yemen and South Sudan, "where nearly 32 million people were food-insecure and in need of ur...
Algorithm could streamline harvesting of hand-picked crops
Mar 21, 2018 (SPX)
However, Richard Sowers, a professor of industrial and enterprise systems engineering and mathematics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a t...
French food fest wants to whet the world's appetite
Mar 21, 2018 (AFP)
Some 3,300 restaurants in more than 150 countries are taking part in the "Good France" festival, from small village cafes in rural Gascony to three-star Micheli...
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