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 ...
Tag: Agriculture
The University of Tennessee System announces One Health Initiative
Effort to focus on animal, environmental issues with implications for human healthCredit: Tory Salvador, UTIA KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - The University ...
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 ...
Eliminating viruses in our food with cranberries and citrus fruit
A team of Canadian researchers is developing a treatment combining fruit extracts and irradiation to prevent outbreaks of foodborne infectionsCredit: ...
New test identifies poisonous mushrooms
Credit: Candace Bever, ARS-USDA ALBANY, CALIFORNIA, February 19, 2020--A simple, portable test that can detect the deadliest of the mushroom ...
Count me out of counting seeds
Credit: Matthew Bertucci One, two, three, four, five. One, two, three, four, five. Over and over and over. That's the ...
Environmental solutions to go global
Polymers clean up mercury and oil spills, nitrogen runoff, and moreCredit: Flinders University / SA Government New Australian technology that ...
California agricultural employers, workers approach smoke concerns differently
UC Davis examines health and safety awareness around mounting threatCredit: Hector Amezcua/UC Davis In 2018, California wildfires burned more than ...
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 ...
How plants in the cabbage family look inward when sulfur is scarce
Kyushu University researchers identify two key enzymes that release sulfur from health-beneficial chemicals in thale cress to promote growth in ...
Local genetic adaption helps sorghum crop hide from witchweed
Credit: S.M. Runo, Kenyatta University Sorghum crops in areas where the agricultural parasite striga, also known as witchweed, is common ...
Hot climates to see more variability in tree leafing as temperatures rise
Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy A team of scientists led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory found ...
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 ...
‘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 ...
Adding sewage sludge on soils does not promote antibiotic resistance, Swedish study shows
Credit: Photo by Johan Wingborg Adding sewage sludge on soils does not promote antibiotic resistance, a study from University of ...
No clear path for golden rice to reach consumers
Seed choice study reveals flawed assumptions behind hotly debated GMOCredit: Courtesy Glenn Davis Stone, Washington University in St. Louis Heralded ...
Biodiversity yields financial returns
Credit: Valentin Klaus Many farmers associate grassland biodiversity with lower yields and financial losses. "Biodiversity is often considered unprofitable, but ...
Bacterial influencers — rhizosphere microbiome mediates root metabolite exudation
Credit: J. Szymanski / IPK Gatersleben, 07.02.2020 Roots are plant organs, that typically absorb water and minerals from soil. It ...
