FARM NEWS - BIOTECHNOLOGY DAILY

DuPont to sell parts of pesticide business to clear path for Dow merger

Mar 31, 2017 (AFP)

US chemical giant DuPont said Friday it will sell off some of its pesticide business in exchange for FMC's health and nutrition business as a step towards clear...

11 percent of disappearing groundwater used to grow internationally traded food

Mar 31, 2017 (SPX)

Wheat, rice, sugar, cotton and maize are among the essential internationally traded crops in the global economy. To produce these crops many countries rely on i...

Making cows more environmentally friendly

Mar 31, 2017 (SPX)

Scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Scotland's Rural College (SRUC) and the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Frankfurt have publi...

Steering towards grazing fields

Mar 31, 2017 (SPX)

It makes sense that a 1,200 pound Angus cow would place quite a lot of pressure on the ground on which it walks. But a new study shows that even these heavy bea...

Biodiversity loss shifts flowering phenology at same magnitude as global warming

Mar 30, 2017 (SPX)

Researchers have revealed that declining plant diversity - from habitat loss, human use, and other environmental pressures - causes plants to flower earlier, an...

Robotics aid in the study of corn and drought tolerance

Mar 30, 2017 (SPX)

Developing drought tolerant corn that makes efficient use of available water will be vital to sustain the estimated 9 billion global population by 2050. In Marc...

Unique wheat passes the test

Mar 30, 2017 (SPX)

Stronger legs in fast-growing broilers, reduced phosphorus emissions to the environment, improved health for undernourished populations in developing countries ...

WSU findings point way to more nutritious crops

Mar 29, 2017 (SPX)

Almost every calorie that we eat at one time went through the veins of a plant. If a plant's circulatory system could be rejiggered to make more nutrients avail...

Scientists are trying to make cows more eco-friendly

Mar 28, 2017 (UPI)

Researchers are trying to develop a more eco-friendly diet for the world's bovine population. Cows account for between 10 to 15 percent of global methane emissi...

Brazil says meat exports back in business post-scandal

Mar 28, 2017 (AFP)

Brazil sought to swallow the last of the scandal surrounding its tainted meat exports Tuesday as top beef buyer Hong Kong resumed imports -- the final major mar...

Brazil tainted meat: Three key markets resume imports

Mar 25, 2017 (AFP)

Brazil won a major victory Saturday in the fight to restore credibility amid a tainted meat scandal, with key markets China, Egypt and Chile lifting their bans ...

Aquaculture chemicals are polluting Chilean rivers

Mar 22, 2017 (UPI)

New research suggests dissolved organic substances, the waste from fish farms, are altering the ecosystems in Chilean rivers. After previous studies showed dirt...

Major market Hong Kong bans Brazilian meat imports

Mar 21, 2017 (AFP)

Hong Kong became the latest government to suspend imports from Brazil Tuesday in the wake of a rotten meat scandal. China, which with Hong Kong is Brazil's bigg...

China's demand for medicine fuels African donkey slaughter

Mar 21, 2017 (AFP)

Under a cloudless sky in South Africa's northwestern farming region, donkeys still amble along muddy paths, pausing to nibble on grass, oblivious to the threat ...

Almond-crop fungicides are harmful to honey bees

Mar 21, 2017 (UPI)

Almond growers face a dilemma. They need to keep their almond trees fungus free, but new research shows almond-crop fungicides harm honey bees, the nut tree's c...

New Zealand's 'green' image under threat: OECD

Mar 21, 2017 (AFP)

New Zealand's strong economic growth is placing strains on the environment that threaten to undermine its "clean, green" reputation, the Organisation for Econom...

China bans Brazil meat in health scare: Brasilia

Mar 20, 2017 (AFP)

Brazil said Monday that China had suspended imports of meat from the South American country over police claims that Brazilian exporters had sold tainted product...

What makes farmers try new practices?

Mar 17, 2017 (SPX)

Change is never easy. But when it comes to adopting new agricultural practices, some farmers are easier to convince than others. A group of researchers at the U...

How improved valves let grasses 'breathe,' cope with climate change

Mar 17, 2017 (SPX)

New work from a joint team of plant biologists and ecologists from Carnegie and Stanford University has uncovered the factor behind an important innovation that...

Molecular mechanism responsible for blooming in spring identified

Mar 17, 2017 (SPX)

Plants possess molecular mechanisms that prevent them from blooming in winter. Once the cold of win-ter has passed, they are deactivated. However, if it is stil...