Tag: Agricultural Production/Economics

Special issue of Applications in Plant Sciences explores current research and challenges in investigating plant root systemsCredit: Image credit Huskey ...

Kyle Davis is an environmental data scientist whose research seeks to increase food supplies in developing countries. He combines techniques ...

Credit: Jennifer Weathered/Utah State University The common perception that pesticides reduce or eliminate target insect species may not always hold. ...

The pervasive myth that intensive breeding has made modern wheat cultivars weaker and more dependent on pesticides and fertilisers is ...

Between 2001 to 2015, 160 million hectares of forest were lost in the tropics due to human activities, threatening primate ...

Study gains a better understanding, from the perspective of farmers, of the challenges and advantageous opportunities associated with using high ...

Study investigates the desirability for, and practicality of, producing snack peppers, both sweet and hot, with low seed countCredit: John ...

Newly available plug-and-play temperature controllers allow conversion of a standard chest freezer into a controlled-environment chamber in minutes, with no ...

National survey analyses adoption of online marketing strategies The green industry in the United States is comprised of production and ...

Industry needs studied as demand and production increasesCredit: John Dole Across the United States and Canada, demand for local specialty ...

Using a protein produced by a fungus that lives in the Amazon, Brazilian researchers developed a molecule capable of increasing ...

Smarter food production is becoming an imperative as the world's population swells and climate changes. With the backing of a ...

UTA entrepreneurshipCredit: UT Arlington Two startups with ties to The University of Texas at Arlington have been selected for an ...

Both factors found to be contributors in dicamba movementCredit: Ginger Rowsey KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Higher temperatures and mixing glyphosate with ...

Researchers at Boyce Thompson Institute and USDA-ARS are examining the relationship between aphids and the plant viruses they transmit on ...

Mediterranean diet for better healthCredit: University of Barcelona Cooking vegetables in the sofrito (sauté) with extra virgin olive oil favours ...

CAMBRIDGE, MD (JUNE 12, 2019)--Ecologists from the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science and the University of Michigan are ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. - Biological control of the brown marmorated stink bug, an invasive pest that devastates gardens and crops, would ...

Project will focus on microbial interactions with wheatCredit: Becky Kirkland, NC State University Research suggests that microbes in the soil, ...

Huanglongbing, (HLB), also known as citrus greening, has devastated Florida's citrus farms. Although some growers in China and Brazil have ...