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EU won't sacrifice food safety for US trade deal: German minister
May 06, 2016 (AFP)
The EU won't sacrifice its high food safety standards for better US auto market access in a transatlantic trade deal being negotiated, a German minister said Fr...
Methane production reduced in ruminants
May 06, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) have taken part in a study of the effect of one molecule, 3-nitrooxypropanol, in inhibiting methane ...
Nanoparticles present sustainable way to grow food crops
May 05, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists are working diligently to prepare for the expected increase in global population - and therefore an increased need for food production-- in the comin...
Bacteria beneficial to plants have spread across California
May 04, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists at the University of California, Riverside have discovered that a strain of beneficial nitrogen-fixing bacteria has spread across California, demonst...
Australian researchers map micronutrients in white rice
May 04, 2016 (SPX)
Efforts to address chronic malnutrition in billions of people have taken a step forward with Australian researchers defining processing conditions that boost th...
Crop advances grow with protection
May 04, 2016 (SPX)
Most people are aware of open-source computer programs. These free programs, accessible by anyone, spread technology to distant corners of the world. Cutting-ed...
Chinese-led group pulls bid for Australian cattle empire
May 03, 2016 (AFP)
A Chinese-led consortium has withdrawn its $281.5 million bid for Australia's vast Kidman cattle empire after the government indicated the deal was not in the n...
Bioreactors ready for the big time
May 03, 2016 (SPX)
Last summer, the Gulf of Mexico's "dead zone" spanned more than 6,400 square miles, more than three times the size it should have been, according to the Gulf Hy...
Honey bee study of parasites and disease reveals troubling trends
May 03, 2016 (SPX)
Honey bee colonies in the United States are in decline, due in part to the ill effects of voracious mites, fungal gut parasites and a wide variety of debilitati...
New gene-detecting technology brings new, resilient superwheat closer
May 03, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists at the John Innes Centre (JIC) and The Sainsbury Laboratory (TSL) have pioneered a new gene-detecting technology which, if deployed correctly could l...
Indonesia takes aim at palm oil after forest fires
May 01, 2016 (AFP)
Indonesia is pushing to ban new palm oil operations after last year's haze-belching forest fires were partly blamed on the industry's expansion, but producers a...
Million people urge Bayer to stop bee-killer pesticides
Apr 29, 2016 (AFP)
German agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals giant Bayer was presented Friday with a petition of more than one million signatures urging it to stop manufacturing pe...
Australia blocks Chinese-led bid to buy biggest ranch
Apr 29, 2016 (AFP)
Australian on Friday knocked back the sale of the country's biggest private landowner, cattle firm S. Kidman and Co., to a Chinese-led consortium citing nationa...
Halal: is it meat you're looking for? says China businessman
Apr 28, 2016 (AFP)
The wine-swilling co-founder of Sai Wai Xiang Halal Foodstuff Co enjoys his pork and does not follow Islam, but still sells more than $50 million-worth of food ...
CO2 fertilization greening the earth
Apr 28, 2016 (SPX)
An international team of 32 authors from 24 institutions in eight countries has just published a study titled "Greening of the Earth and its Drivers" in the jou...
High alpine dairying may have begun over 3000 years ago
Apr 28, 2016 (SPX)
The discovery of dairy fats on ancient pottery may indicate dairying high in the Alps occurred as early as the Iron Age over 3000 years ago, according to a stud...
Study shows how to make fertilizer from sunlight
Apr 27, 2016 (SPX)
A group of scientists led by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden and involving the University of Colorado Boul...
Bringing nitrogen out to pasture
Apr 26, 2016 (SPX)
Cows in Brazil might start bellowing "leguuume" rather than "moo." That's because Jose Dubeux Jr. wants to plant more legume trees in cow pastures. Dubeux is an...
USU chemists shed new light on global energy, food supply challenge
Apr 26, 2016 (SPX)
All living things require nitrogen for survival, but the world depends on only two known processes to break nitrogen's ultra-strong bonds to allow conversion to...
Junk food is fattening rural Chinese children: study
Apr 26, 2016 (AFP)
Researchers raised the alarm Wednesday about an obesity explosion among children in rural China as a Western-style diet high in sugar and carbohydrates starts t...
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