Oldest reconstructed bacterial genomes link farming, herding with emergence of new disease
Scientists present the first ancient DNA that links the spread of farming culture in ancient Eurasia to the emergence of ...
Tag: Agricultural Production/Economics
Climate change will cause a loss of olive production in Andalusia
Credit: Universidad de Córdoba We do not have to look as far away as the glaciers in Norway, the fires ...
New torula yeast product as digestible as fish meal in weanling pig diets
Credit: University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - Starting weanling pigs off with the right diet can make all the difference ...
Diversifying traditional forest management to protect forest arthropods
Forest arthropods and rivers: an unknown connectionCredit: Antoni Serra, UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA-CRBA The structure of vegetation and steam distance are ...
New artificial intelligence algorithm better predicts corn yield
Credit: L. Brian Stauffer, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - With some reports predicting the precision agriculture market will reach ...
Scientists develop open-source software to analyze economics of biofuels, bioproducts
'BioSTEAM' allows researchers to quickly compare and prioritize strategies for converting biomass to fuels and productsCredit: The Center for Advanced ...
5200-year-old grains in the eastern Altai Mountains redate trans-Eurasian crop exchange
Agricultural crops dispersed across Eurasia more than five millennia ago, causing significant cultural change in human populations across the ancient ...
New technique reduces pathogen identification time from two weeks to less than one hour
Credit: Karolina Pusz-Bochenska, Edel Perez-Lopez, Tim J. Dumonceaux, Chrystel Olivier, and Tyler J. Wist St. Paul, MN (February 2020)--Transmitted by ...
Silica increases water availability for plants
Bayreuth researchers discover a way to enhance food securityCredit: Photo: University of Bayreuth. As a result of climate change, more ...
Bayreuth researchers discover new arsenic compounds in rice fields
Risk or opportunity for rice cultivation?Credit: Photo: José Miguel Leon Ninin. University of Bayreuth researchers, together with scientists from Italy ...
Is it hemp or marijuana? New scanner gives instant answer
A handheld spectrometer quickly determines the level of THC in cannabis plantsCredit: Image courtesy of Dmitry Kurouski Hemp is technically ...
‘Rule breaking’ plants may be climate change survivors
Credit: Dr Annabel Smith Plants that break some of the 'rules' of ecology by adapting in unconventional ways may have ...
Biodiversity yields financial returns
Credit: Valentin Klaus Many farmers associate grassland biodiversity with lower yields and financial losses. "Biodiversity is often considered unprofitable, but ...
Next generation of greenhouses may be fully solar powered
Credit: Brendan O'Connor, NC State University Many greenhouses could become energy neutral by using see-through solar panels to harvest energy ...
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