Tag: Agricultural Production/Economics

Credit: University of Adelaide An international team of scientists has shown it is possible to breed cattle to reduce their ...

Credit: Professor Williams, Trinity College Dublin It's the season for a cold, refreshing gin and tonic. We may question the ...

Credit: University of Cambridge A vegetable-picking robot that uses machine learning to identify and harvest a commonplace, but challenging, agricultural ...

Inclusion of a parameter that measures an animal's capacity to transmit its genetic traits resulted in gains of up to ...

Credit: UBC Media Relations A big data study covering more than 7,500 households across 23 tropical countries shows that natural ...

Agroforestry is overlooked in global climate change reporting systems, resulting in missed opportunities to account for a major carbon sinkCredit: ...

Credit: Alexander Tokarev/UCLA A Frog Worth Kissing: Natural Defense Against Red Tide Toxin Found in Bullfrogs By ALIYAH KOVNER A ...

Credit: César Elias Botelho National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, Empresa de Pesquisa Agropecuaria de Minas Gerais Each day, ...

As Asia and Europe battle African swine fever, University of Vermont research shows how farmers' risk attitudes affect the spread ...

Credit: Rob Spencer Thousand-year-old tropical soil unearthed by accelerating deforestation and agriculture land use could be unleashing carbon dioxide into ...

Many people suffer from a vitamin D deficiency. This can result in brittle bones and an increased risk of respiratory ...

Credit: N. Palacios and V. Govindan After a prolonged decline, global hunger is on the rise--affecting more than 820 million ...

Credit: COLLEGE STATION -- Texas A&M AgriLife Research and the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, TEES, were recently awarded a ...

Credit: Bioversity International/K.DeSousa Global demand for coffee and cocoa is on the rise. Yet across the equatorial belt where these ...

International research team develops public database with 174 chicken breedsCredit: Juliane Fellner A total of 174 chicken breeds are described ...

Results point to a need for increased research, extension, and best management practicesCredit: FarmersGov Beekeepers across the United States lost ...

Engineering/synthetic biology can improve many aspects of life, but needs federal supportCredit: Engineering Biology Research Consortium, UC Berkeley Genetically engineered ...

Credit: 2019 KAUST A new platform for speeding up and controlling the evolution of proteins inside living plants has been ...

Credit: Kobe University Plants are susceptible to stress, and with the global impact of climate change and humanity's growing demand ...

Credit: Kanazawa University In Japan, tea farms are found in warm areas, whose northern limit is Ibaraki prefecture, where green ...