FARM NEWS - BIOTECHNOLOGY DAILY

Cow-calf grazing practices could mitigate greenhouse gas emissions

Nov 09, 2015 (SPX)

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the Southern Great Plains could require a change of grazing management by traditional cow-calf producers, according to a st...

How plant cell compartments 'chat' with each other

Nov 06, 2015 (SPX)

A team of researchers led by scientists from the University of Bonn has discovered a basis of communication in plant cells: The 'MICU' protein controls the calc...

Faster digestion in kangaroos reduces methane emissions

Nov 06, 2015 (SPX)

Animals produce methane during the digestion process - some more than others. Currently, around 20 percent of the world's methane emissions stem from ruminants....

Researchers uncover the history of rice cultivation

Nov 06, 2015 (UPI)

New research suggests rice was thrice domesticated. On three separate occasions, farmers in different parts of the world began cultivating wild rice strains cho...

Colombia drought threatens one of world's top coffees

Nov 05, 2015 (AFP)

A drought caused by the El Nino weather phenomenon is worrying farmers in the Colombian Andes who fear for their crop -- one of the world's most prized coffee b...

Did Dust Bowl's ravages end in the 1940s

Nov 04, 2015 (SPX)

A recent study led by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Goodrich Chair of Excellence Thanos Papanicolaou could very well change the way we view the health...

Blowing in the wind: how to stop cow burps warming Earth

Nov 04, 2015 (AFP)

At her farm nestled in the green hills of northwestern France, Marie-Francoise Brizard is helping to curb a planet-wide menace: farting and belching cows implic...

EU lawmakers throw out GMO compromise law

Oct 28, 2015 (AFP)

EU lawmakers on Wednesday rejected by a huge majority a hard-won compromise which would have allowed EU member states to decide for themselves whether or not to...

Potato harvest reduced by half

Oct 28, 2015 (SPX)

Food waste is today's hot topic. In fact, according to scientific surveys in Switzerland, 300 kg of perfectly good food ends up in the bin per person each year....

Reducing the sweetness to survive

Oct 26, 2015 (SPX)

Plants produce a large arsenal of toxic compounds in order fend off herbivorous insects. To make sure that the toxicity of these defensive substances will not h...

Farmers lose debt gamble in typhoon-plagued Philippines

Oct 25, 2015 (AFP)

Philippine rice farmer Francisco Santo Domingo's life is in ruins after losing yet another gamble with nature, but the typhoon that destroyed his crops means gl...

Australian technology allows cows' weights to be monitored from space

Oct 22, 2015 (AFP)

Australian farmers managing cattle stations as large as some European nations will soon be able to monitor their cows and pastures from space as part of "ground...

Syria's Arctic seed vault relocated to Morocco, Lebanon

Oct 19, 2015 (UPI)

Nearly 40,000 seeds originally from Syria have been safely transferred from a so-called seed vault, located on Norway's Svalbard archipelago, inside the Arctic ...

Researchers learn how to keep pathogens, pests from traveling with grain

Oct 15, 2015 (SPX)

University of Florida researchers say new research can help grain handlers and grain inspectors find key locations for pathogens and pests along rail routes in ...

Australia wheat board Iraq 'kickback' chairman in court

Oct 12, 2015 (AFP)

The former chairman of an Australian wheat firm that allegedly paid sanctions-busting bribes to secure UN oil-for-food programme contracts in Saddam Hussein's I...

Plant biosensor could help African farmers fight parasitic 'witchweed'

Oct 12, 2015 (SPX)

Engineering and biology professors at the University of Toronto have developed a new strategy for helping African farmers fight a parasitic plant that devastate...

N. Korea food production could drop 14%: FAO

Oct 09, 2015 (AFP)

North Korea's staple food production could plummet by 14 percent this year because of bad weather, sparking fears of exacerbating chronic food shortages in the ...

Trade in invasive plants is blossoming

Oct 08, 2015 (SPX)

Goldenrod, Himalayan balsam, Chinese windmill palm: three plants, one problem. All are native to continents other than Europe, but were introduced to Switzerlan...

Accurate timing of migration prolongs life expectancy in pike

Oct 08, 2015 (SPX)

Animal migration is a spectacular phenomenon that has fascinated humans for long. It is widely assumed that appropriate timing of migratory events is crucial fo...

Colorful caterpillar chemists

Oct 08, 2015 (SPX)

Scientists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama compared the diets of two caterpillar species, expecting the one that exclusively con...