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Recycling nutrient-rich industrial waste products enhances soil, reduces carbon
Dec 09, 2019 (SPX)
A recent paper in Agrosystems, Geosciences and Environment examines the possible benefits of a new kind of crop fertilizer. Researchers from the University of T...
First 'lab in a field' experiment reveals a sunnier side of climate change
Dec 09, 2019 (SPX)
The field trial experiment - the first of its kind - was set up to investigate the link between warmer Octobers in the United Kingdom and higher yields of oilse...
Climate change threatens food supplies
Dec 09, 2019 (AFP)
Weather is a key variable and normally crop losses in one region are compensated by another, helped along by storage and trading systems resilient to short term...
Austrian govt declines to implement glyphosate ban for 2020
Dec 09, 2019 (AFP)
In a letter to the speaker of parliament, Chancellor Brigitte Bierlein said the European Commission had not been given the necessary notification about the meas...
China to exempt 'some' US soybean, pork from tariffs
Dec 06, 2019 (AFP)
The world's two biggest economies have exchanged blows for more than a year, with levies now imposed on hundreds of billions of dollars in two-way trade. The ol...
EU bans controversial pesticide
Dec 06, 2019 (AFP)
The commission, the EU's powerful regulator, had proposed for non-renewal of the chemical agent following an assessment by the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA...
US tweaks restrictions on 'cyanide bomb' anti-predator devices
Dec 06, 2019 (AFP)
The devices, known as M-44s, are implanted in the ground, resembling lawn sprinklers. They use a spring-loaded ejector to release sodium cyanide when an animal ...
China unveils plan to boost pork production
Dec 06, 2019 (AFP)
Authorities outlined a three-year plan to boost its pig-breeding facilities in a bid to restore the country's hog herds, devasted by African swine fever. This w...
School cafeterias waste 530K tons of food per year
Dec 06, 2019 (UPI)
For the study, researchers analyzed the amount of food wasted in 46 schools located in nine U.S. cities across eight states. They used the results to estimate h...
Resilient, opportunistic plants are most invasive threat, study shows
Dec 06, 2019 (UPI)
To better understand which plants make the best invaders, scientists surveyed a global database of plant life cycles. "What we found was a real surprise," Dave ...
Cut down on meat? Top French butcher says less is more
Dec 05, 2019 (AFP)
"Right now the old rules on meat have been blown up, you have information, propaganda -- it just needs to stop," the 31-year-old says at his shop in a bustling ...
France bans two US pesticides, citing risk to bees
Dec 04, 2019 (AFP)
A court in Nice, ruling in a case brought by two ecological associations, banned the products from US group Dow AgroSciences, on the grounds that their containi...
Scientists search the wild for food plant genes
Dec 03, 2019 (AFP)
Humans have domesticated wild plants for some 10,000 years to provide food but in doing so they have bred out many of their natural defences, leaving them -- an...
Yeast study reveals the benefits of gene amplification
Dec 03, 2019 (UPI)
To ward off environmental stress, living organisms accumulate extra copies of beneficial genes. The phenomenon is often referred to as gene, or genome, amplific...
Austria's glyphosate ban thrown into doubt
Dec 02, 2019 (AFP)
Parliament approved the ban in July, making Austria the first EU member state to do so, but the government has now warned of a possible legal clash with Brussel...
Japanese restaurants rocket to top of best in world list
Nov 29, 2019 (AFP)
Yosuke Suga's tiny Tokyo restaurant Sugalabo, which has only 20 tables, does not have a Michelin star but shares the top spot on the French-based list alongside...
Satellites track status of America's food supply
Nov 28, 2019 (SPX)
These changes and delays in farmers' plans this year made the United States Department of Agriculture's job of tracking and estimating crop production with farm...
China pork imports climb in bid to control rising prices
Nov 28, 2019 (AFP)
Chinese authorities have scrambled to control prices -- even going as far as tapping the country's pork reserve -- as the swine fever crisis could become a poli...
Restored prairie rescues famished bees living on the farm
Nov 27, 2019 (UPI)
There are are many risks that come with life on the farm, including exposure to harmful insecticides and a lack of biodiversity, but in the middle of summer, if...
Drought impact study shows new issues for plants and carbon dioxide
Nov 26, 2019 (SPX)
"Even though plants can, in many cases, benefit from increased levels of carbon dioxide that are predicted for the future atmosphere, the impact of severe droug...
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