Illinois residents value strategies to improve water quality
Credit: College of ACES, University of Illinois. URBANA, Ill. ¬- Illinois residents value efforts to reduce watershed pollution, and they ...
Tag: Agricultural Production/Economics
Climate change is hurting children’s diets, global study finds
Rising temperatures contribute to child malnutrition and reduced diet qualityCredit: C. Shubert (CCAFS) A first-of-its-kind, international study of 107,000 children ...
No-till practices in vulnerable areas significantly reduce soil erosion
Credit: College of ACES, University of Illinois. URBANA, Ill. - Soil erosion is a major challenge in agricultural production. It ...
Soil degradation costs U.S. corn farmers a half-billion dollars every year
Credit: Pexels One-third of the fertilizer applied to grow corn in the U.S. each year simply compensates for the ongoing ...
Bacteria can tell the time
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Energy sorghum may combine best of annual, perennial bioenergy crops
CABBI study shows the annual crop behaves more like the perennial grass miscanthus in its efficient use of water and ...
Scientists developing new solutions for honeybee colony collapse
Grant establishes network of bee researchers at four UC campusesCredit: Boris Baer/UCR The University of California, Riverside, is leading a ...
Cattle grazing and soybean yields
Credit: Morgan Grabau By late fall, much of the Midwest is a pleasing landscape of dry, harvested corn fields. It ...
Understanding disease-induced microbial shifts may reveal new crop management strategies
Credit: Dr. Nichole Ginnan While humanity is facing the COVID-19 pandemic, the citrus industry is trying to manage its own ...
Using solar energy and agriculture to limit climate change, assist rural communities
Credit: Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. - Co-developing land for both solar photovoltaic power and agriculture could provide 20% of ...
Bacteriophage has important role in agriculture and aquaculture
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publications New Rochelle, NY, January 4, 2021--Crop plants and animals can be infected by bacterial ...
Two University of Tennessee leaders honored by Association of Public and Land-grant Universities
UTIA's Neal Schrick and Hongwei Xin recognized as FSLI FellowsCredit: Image provided by FSLI. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Two leaders from ...
The puzzle of nonhost resistance: why do pathogens harm some plants but not others?
Credit: Ralph Panstruga & Matthew Moscou People have puzzled for years why pathogen Phytophthora infestens causes the devastating late blight ...
Groups of bacteria can work together to better protect crops and improve their growth
Credit: Noam Eckshtain-Levi, Susanna Leigh Harris, Reizo Quilat Roscios, and Elizabeth Anne Shank Certain bacteria, known as plant-growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB), ...
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