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Google makes fresh push into grocery delivery

Feb 17, 2016 (AFP)

Google said Wednesday it was adding fresh foods to its grocery delivery service, ramping up its challenge to Amazon and a long list of delivery startups. The US...

Market integration could help offset climate-related food insecurity

Feb 16, 2016 (SPX)

Global market integration is key to buffering future commodity prices and food security from the negative effects of climate change on agriculture, says a Purdu...

Lactation, weather found to predict milk quality in dairy cows

Feb 16, 2016 (SPX)

The quality of colostrum - the nutrient-rich milk newborn dairy calves first drink from their mothers - can be predicted by the mother's previous lactation perf...

DNA rice breakthrough raises 'green revolution' hopes

Feb 15, 2016 (AFP)

Rice-growing techniques learned through thousands of years of trial and error are about to be turbocharged with DNA technology in a breakthrough hailed by scien...

Kansas State University researchers staying ahead of wheat blast disease

Feb 15, 2016 (SPX)

In the past seven years, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded Kansas State University $6.5 million to keep a wheat fungus that has had a devastating i...

US inspectors ensure no nasty surprises on Valentine's Day

Feb 12, 2016 (AFP)

When -- or if -- that bunch of flowers arrives on Sunday for Valentine's Day, spare a thought for Edward Putland. Putland, an agent specializing in agriculture ...

Healing the soil

Feb 12, 2016 (SPX)

Four empty lots in Chicago's South Side bear scars of the past. Their surfaces are strewn with construction debris and foundation rubble. However, the most incr...

Climate change's frost harms early plant reproduction

Feb 10, 2016 (SPX)

Climate change may harm early-flowering plants not through plant-pollinator mismatch but through frost damage, a Dartmouth College-led study shows. The findings...

Oregano may reduce methane in cow burps

Feb 10, 2016 (SPX)

It may sound pretty harmless, but methane emissions from cows are a large problem for the climate. When ruminants digest their feed, methane is formed as a natu...

Agricultural policies in Africa could be harming the poorest

Feb 09, 2016 (SPX)

Agricultural policies aimed at alleviating poverty in Africa could be making things worse, according to research by the University of East Anglia (UEA). Publish...

France's Cahors wine is new frontier for Argentina, China

Feb 07, 2016 (AFP)

France's southwestern Cahors region is a new frontier for foreign investors, from Argentine winegrowers doing the "Malbec tango" to potential investor "ambassad...

One step closer to commercial edamame production in the US

Feb 05, 2016 (SPX)

Edamame, touted as a healthy snack for its high protein content, is becoming increasingly popular in the United States. The soybean seeds are consumed at an imm...

Bee virus spread manmade and emanates from Europe

Feb 05, 2016 (SPX)

The spread of a disease that is decimating global bee populations is manmade, and driven by European honeybee populations, new research has concluded. A study l...

How roots grow

Feb 05, 2016 (SPX)

In contrast to animals, plants form new organs throughout their entire life, i.e. roots, branches, flowers and fruits. Researchers in Frankfurt wanted to know t...

Scientists discover how plants tailor growth to the seasons

Feb 04, 2016 (SPX)

Dmitri A. Nusinow, Ph.D., assistant member at the Danforth Plant Science Center and researchers in his lab studying plants' circadian clock have discovered a ge...

Organic agriculture key to feeding the world sustainably

Feb 04, 2016 (SPX)

Washington State University researchers have concluded that feeding a growing global population with sustainability goals in mind is possible. Their review of h...

China firm offers record $43 bn for agri-giant Syngenta

Feb 03, 2016 (AFP)

State-owned China National Chemical Corp. Wednesday offered $43 billion in an agreed takeover for Swiss pesticide and seed giant Syngenta, in what would be by f...

Transgenic plants' 'die and let live' strategy dramatically increases drought resistance

Feb 02, 2016 (SPX)

Purdue University researchers found that engineering plants to produce high levels of a protein known as PYL9 dramatically boosted drought tolerance in rice and...

China jails employees of US food firm over meat scandal

Feb 01, 2016 (AFP)

A Chinese court on Monday jailed six employees of a US company which supplied fast food outlets including KFC and McDonald's with sub-standard meat in a high-pr...

How 'more food per field' could help save our wild spaces

Jan 29, 2016 (SPX)

Agricultural expansion is a leading cause of wild species loss and greenhouse gas emissions. However, as farming practices and technologies continue to be refin...