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Malaysia minister accuses EU of palm oil 'trade war'
May 06, 2019 (AFP)
The southeast Asian country is the world's second biggest palm oil producer after Indonesia and would be hit hard by the EU's plan to phase out its use in biofu...
Smart tech the new tool for African farmers
May 05, 2019 (AFP)
How do you count the number of mangoes on your farm so that you get a fair price? And what's a clever-but-cheap way for a farmer to cut down his irrigation bill...
Biologists warn of peril from biological invasions as White House cuts funding
May 02, 2019 (SPX)
"Defunding invasion policy and management at the federal level at a time when the rate of invasions into the U.S. are increasing and is exacerbated by climate c...
When apple trees blossom, worker bees rock
May 02, 2019 (AFP)
"Without bees, no pollinization, no apples, no life," sums up farmer Alexandre Prot, who decided to deal with a decline in bee populations by becoming a beekeep...
Do additives help the soil?
May 02, 2019 (SPX)
Miranda Hart, who teaches biology at UBC's Okanagan campus, says despite a decades-long practice, there could be environmental consequences of adding bio-fertil...
Canada ups loans to farmers after China blocks canola
May 01, 2019 (AFP)
The government said it would more than double the amount of money available to individual farmers under an existing aid program to Can$1 million (US$750,000). C...
US says glyphosate not carcinogenic, poses environmental risks
Apr 30, 2019 (AFP)
Glyphosate developer Monsanto was convicted in 2018 and 2019 of not taking necessary steps to warn of the potential risks of Roundup -- their weed killer contai...
Ancient Peruvian microbrewery, sour ale helps explain longevity of the Wari empire
Apr 19, 2019 (UPI)
For several years, researchers have been studying the remains of a brewing site at Cerro Baúl, an ancient city in southern Peru and the political center of the...
Papa roach: Chinese farmer breeds bugs for the table
Apr 19, 2019 (AFP)
Picking the critter off his forehead, he tossed it back into the dark room where some 10 million more of its kind scurried around, housed in wooden frames perch...
Solving the mystery of fertilizer loss from Midwest cropland
Apr 16, 2019 (SPX)
"This is the first time anyone has been able to quantify how much small-scale yield variability there is in the United States Corn Belt," said Bruno Basso, MSU ...
How much nature is lost due to higher yields?
Apr 15, 2019 (SPX)
"This is because even agricultural areas offer fauna and flora a valuable habitat - which is something that is frequently not sufficiently taken into considerat...
The Hong Kong beekeeper harvesting hives barehanded
Apr 14, 2019 (AFP)
While most new beekeepers buy insects from those with already established colonies, Yip prefers a more organic method, trekking into the hills and catching wild...
Genetic breakthrough on tropical grass could help develop climate-friendly cattle farms
Apr 10, 2019 (SPX)
But the breeding process is difficult, time-consuming and expensive. A breakthrough on Brachiaria's complex genome may make breeding much more efficient, and po...
Genome assembly of pasta wheat leads to new insights for modern wheat breeding
Apr 10, 2019 (SPX)
The information provided by accessing the complete genome has already been utilised to gain new knowledge on the genetic properties of the important cereal spec...
Just how much does enhancing photosynthesis improve crop yield?
Apr 09, 2019 (SPX)
A team of scientists have just developed exactly that: a dynamic model that predicts which photosynthetic manipulations to plants will boost the yields of wheat...
New pathways for sustainable agriculture
Apr 09, 2019 (SPX)
But how much of these habitats is necessary and how should they be arranged to make use of these nature-based ecosystem services? This question has been address...
The future of agriculture is computerized
Apr 08, 2019 (SPX)
Using all of the above, researchers in the Media Lab's Open Agriculture Initiative report that they have created basil plants that are likely more delicious tha...
Farming for natural profits in China
Apr 08, 2019 (SPX)
A recent case-study by researchers at Stanford, McGill University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences provide a promising demonstration of this approach - farme...
'Cow toilets' in Netherlands aim to cut e-moo-ssions
Mar 29, 2019 (AFP)
Tests have started on a farm in the Netherlands on the device which collects some of the 15 to 20 litres of urine that the average cow produces a day. That prod...
Monsanto ordered to pay $81 mn in Roundup cancer trial
Mar 28, 2019 (AFP)
A San Francisco jury found the firm, which is owned by Bayer, had been "negligent by not using reasonable care" to warn of the risks of its product, ordering it...
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