Climate-smart ag strategies may cut nitrous oxide emissions from corn production
Credit: Heather Karsten, Penn State For corn, using dairy manure and legume cover crops in crop rotations can reduce the ...
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Climate change atlas offers a glimpse into forest futures
USDA Forest Service overhauls a popular toolCredit: USDA Forest Service Delaware, Ohio, April 21, 2021-- For 20 years, the USDA ...
Host, management, or microbial traits: Which is dominant in plant microbiome assemblage?
Credit: Frances Trail We've all heard the news stories of how what you eat can affect your microbiome. Changing your ...
Antibiotics protect apples from fire blight, but do they destroy the native microbiome?
Credit: Anna Wallis Like humans, certain plants are treated with antibiotics to ward off pathogens and protect the host. Saving ...
Early Neolithic farmers modified the reproductive cycle of sheep
Over 7,500 years ago early farmers set down the foundations of livestock strategies that persist todayCredit: Alejandro Sierra The results, ...
Improved management of farmed peatlands could cut 500 million tons CO2
Reduced emissions from halving drainage depths would be equivalent to 1% of all anthropogenic greenhouse gasesCredit: Picture: Alex Cumming Substantial ...
Understanding our restoring force
Research team shows that restoration efforts can brighten an ecosystem's future, but cannot erase its pastCredit: Nash Turley An expansive ...
Reliably detecting cocoa off-flavors
Relevant not only for chocolate fansCredit: Martin Steinhaus Musty, moldy, smoky or horse dung-like smelling cocoa is not suitable for ...
Understanding spoilage and quality issues may improve American artisan cheesemaking industry
Top concerns of artisan cheesemakers are examined in new research in the Journal of Dairy Science®Credit: Refer to caption Philadelphia, ...
Shedding light on the long and the short of plant growth
Credit: John Innes Centre What keeps some plants squatting close to the soil while others - even those closely related ...
A new guide for communicating plant science
Credit: Iowa State University News Service AMES, Iowa - A lot is riding on the continued advancement of plant sciences. ...
Quality and quantity of enrichments influence well-being of aquaculture fishes
Credit: Pekka Hyvärinen/Luke Collaborative research of the University of Jyvaskyla and Natural Research Institute Finland presents new evidence of the ...
Southeast Regional Sun Grant Center announces grant recipients
Supporting innovation in sustainable, bio-derived productsCredit: Image courtesy UTIA. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- The Southeast Regional Sun Grant Center at the ...
Agricultural trade across US states can mitigate economic impacts of climate change
Credit: University of Illinois. URBANA, Ill. - Agricultural producers deal firsthand with changing weather conditions, and extreme events such as ...
Betting on drones as smart agricultural tools for pesticide use in farms
Researchers assess whether drones can spray pesticides better than conventional technologies in terms of cost, capacity, and management efficiencyCredit: Yuna ...
International effort to combat crop-threatening weeds headed by CSU scientists
New project for improved management of the most intractable species of weedsCredit: Jessica Strauss/Australian Herbicide Resistance Initiative Every multi-acre farmer ...
In pig brain development, nature beats nurture
Credit: Lauren D. Quinn, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - Before humans can benefit from new drug therapies and nutritional ...
How we can reduce food waste and promote healthy eating
Credit: College of ACES, University of Illinois. URBANA, Ill. - Food waste and obesity are major problems in developed countries. ...
Cultivating Matsutake, valuable edible fungi
Credit: Copyright © 2021, Akiyoshi Yamada et al., under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature Costing ...
Almond production remains stable in the long term, despite deficit irrigation
Credit: University of Cordoba Spain boasts the largest cultivated area of almond trees in the world, with more than 700,000 ...