Aerial insect trap network describes life in the skies
Credit: Doris Lagos-Kutz, USDA-ARS and University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - Like most invasive species, when the soybean aphid arrived ...
Tag: Agricultural Production/Economics
Digital tools for agriculture
Credit: (Photo: Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture / Felix Zahn, photothek.net) Germany is getting a lot of rain in ...
Natural habitat around farms a win for strawberry growers, birds and consumers
Removing natural habitat can increase growers' costs up to 76% with no detectable effect on food safetyCredit: Elissa Olimpi/UC Davis ...
Acacia bushlands prevent climate warming in Eastern Africa
Credit: Petri Pellikka Changes to the vegetation cover of land surfaces constitutes the biggest cause of increasing carbon dioxide emissions ...
Natural organic matter influences arsenic release into groundwater
Credit: Andreas Kappler Millions of people worldwide consume water contaminated with levels of arsenic that exceed those recommended by the ...
Microbes play important role in soil’s nitrogen cycle
Credit: Vivian Wauters Under our feet, in the soil, is a wealth of microbial activity. Just like humans have different ...
Common feed ingredient tested safe in bulls
Credit: Dan Shike, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - Cattle feeders choose distillers grains in feedlot diets as an inexpensive ...
Disease-causing virus manipulates crop plants to favor its vector
Credit: Nick Sloff, Penn State UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The virus that causes barley yellow dwarf, the most widespread disease ...
Biomass fuels can significantly mitigate global warming
Credit: Photo credit: Ryan Mater BEER-SHEVA, ISRAEL...March 10, 2020 - Biomass fuels derived from various grasses could significantly mitigate global ...
Rice, know thy enemy: NSF grants $2.6 million to study weedy invader
Credit: Joe Angeles/Washington University Many farmers struggle with an enemy that looks like a friend. Agricultural weeds that are close ...
Photosynthesis varies greatly across rice cultivars–natural diversity could boost yields
A new study uncovers how 14 diverse rice plants harness fluctuating light to fix carbon dioxide into food--our team found a 117% ...
More taxpayers’ money for the environment and public benefit
EU Common Agricultural Policy: More than 3,600 researchers call for science to be taken into considerationCredit: Sebastian Lakner The European ...
New aerial image dataset to help provide farmers with actionable insights
Enabling agricultural pattern analysis to improve decision-making and maximize yieldsCredit: Intelinair A dataset of large-scale aerial images produced by Intelinair, ...
Recovering phosphorus from corn ethanol production can help reduce groundwater pollution
Credit: Marianne Stein URBANA, Ill. - Dried distiller's grains with solubles (DDGS), a co-product from corn ethanol processing, is commonly ...
Corn productivity in real time: Satellites, field cameras, and farmers team up
Credit: Image courtesy of Hyungsuk Kimm, University of Illinois. URBANA, Ill. - University of Illinois scientists, with help from members ...
Flower faithful native bee makes a reliable pollinator
Just like us, the humble sweat bee has a daily routineCredit: Jacob Cecala Entomologists at UC Riverside have documented that ...
Cover crops can benefit hot, dry soils
Credit: Rajan Ghimire The Southern High Plains of the United States have low annual rainfall. When it does rain, though, ...
With 30,000 surveys, researchers build the go-to dataset for smallholder farms
Farmer input is essential to tackling global challenges of climate change, rural poverty and nutrition. A new data collection tool ...
More than 60% of Myanmar’s mangroves has been deforested in the last 20 years: NUS study
Between 1996 and 2016, substantial mangrove forests have been converted to agricultural use; Pressing need to protect the critical coastal ...
How millets sustained Mongolia’s empires
Stable isotope analyses reveals dramatic diet diversification at the onset of the steppe's earliest empiresCredit: Alicia Ventresca Miller The historic ...
