Tag: Agricultural Production/Economics

Soot from firestorms would reduce crop production for yearsCredit: Adapted from Jägermeyr et al., 2020 The concept of nuclear winter--a ...

India vs. Pakistan conflict could lead to worst food losses in modern historyCredit: Julie Doll, MSU/NSF KBS LTER Site A ...

Study: Changes in insecticides, fertilization drove productivity gains -- not Bt cotton adoptionCredit: Glenn Davis Stone/Washington University Genetically modified (GM) ...

Team led by Salk scientists provides a detailed picture of how plant hormones communicate through gene regulationCredit: Salk Institute LA ...

Credit: Erik Lehnhoff and Rebecca Creamer Transmitted by an insect known as the beet leafhopper, curly top disease is a ...

Credit: Ranajit Bandyopadhyay? In Senegal, groundnut and maize are commonly contaminated with highly toxic, cancer-causing chemicals called aflatoxins, which are ...

Credit: Doris Lagos-Kutz, USDA-ARS and University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - Like most invasive species, when the soybean aphid arrived ...

Credit: (Photo: Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture / Felix Zahn, photothek.net) Germany is getting a lot of rain in ...

Removing natural habitat can increase growers' costs up to 76% with no detectable effect on food safetyCredit: Elissa Olimpi/UC Davis ...

Credit: Petri Pellikka Changes to the vegetation cover of land surfaces constitutes the biggest cause of increasing carbon dioxide emissions ...

Credit: Andreas Kappler Millions of people worldwide consume water contaminated with levels of arsenic that exceed those recommended by the ...

Credit: Vivian Wauters Under our feet, in the soil, is a wealth of microbial activity. Just like humans have different ...

Credit: Dan Shike, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - Cattle feeders choose distillers grains in feedlot diets as an inexpensive ...

Credit: Nick Sloff, Penn State UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The virus that causes barley yellow dwarf, the most widespread disease ...