Tag: Agriculture

Innovations in agriculture and food supply in response to the COVID-19 pandemicCredit: QAAFI Robots working in abattoirs, sky-high vertical farms, ...

Credit: Katja Koehler-Cole Winter cover crops benefit soil health and can suppress weeds in subsequent row crops but may also ...

Credit: Joe Mendoza/CSU Photography Agricultural production is highly sensitive to weather and climate, which affect when farmers and land managers ...

Hongwei Xin recognized for leadership in global initiativesCredit: Image courtesy of UTIA. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Hongwei Xin, who leads the ...

Credit: Jennifer Fedenko Many living creatures live in soil. Though their sizes range from microscopic soil microbes to larger animals ...

Credit: Allison Usavage, Cornell University ITHACA, N.Y. - Tracking the role of messenger RNA, or mRNA, through plants is like ...

As a result of climate change, soil animals are getting smaller, and their numbers are falling due to intensive land ...

Effectiveness demonstrated in the Cucurbitaceae familyCredit: Kobe University Researchers have revealed that commercial pesticides can be applied to crops in ...

Pest colonizes grape vines, forms root and leaf tumors, repels other predatorsCredit: Paul Nabity/UCR Following a decade-long effort, scientists have ...

Rutgers study examines potential names for package labels to meet FDA rulesCredit: William Hallman/Rutgers University-New Brunswick Companies seeking to commercialize ...

Credit: Picture : A. Ruban and A. Houben, IPK, Gatersleben Maize (Zea mays ssp. mays) was initially domesticated by Native ...

Credit: University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - With more ethanol in production and a greater ability to upcycle co-products into ...

Alvin R. Womac honored by American Society of Agricultural and Biological EngineersCredit: Photo courtesy UTIA KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Being named ...

Credit: Dr. Pavel Zykin Highly stable polymeric "amyloid" proteins, best known for their role in Alzheimer's disease, have been mostly ...

Credit: DSM The optimum amount of a methane-inhibiting supplement in dairy cattle feed has been determined by an international team ...

Data show a steady shift to fewer and larger farming operations across crops, dairy, and livestockCredit: Edwin Remsberg, University of ...

Scientists use CRISPR technology to insert sex-determining geneCredit: Alison Van Eenennaam/UC Davis Scientists at the University of California, Davis, have ...

Credit: Jason Koski, Cornell University ITHACA, N.Y. - Dairy farmers have improved the efficiency and reduced the environmental impacts of ...

Credit: Jodi DeJong-Hughes Excessively wet field conditions at harvest throughout the North Central and upper Midwest regions resulted in many ...

Study targets reducing methane production by 20 percent in 10 years according to research in the Journal of Dairy Science®Credit: ...