Farming and Agriculture

Rice grown for seed rice was the focus of a yearlong investigation by the Arkansas Rice Processing Program using X‐ray imaging to determine the impact of higher drying temperatures.This post was originally published on this […]

Extreme weather events, from heavy rainfall to heat waves and droughts, are increasingly threatening crop yields globally, so new solutions are needed for agriculture.This post was originally published on this site.

England’s farms have significantly reduced their environmental footprint over the past decade, according to new modeling that suggests greenhouse gas emissions and other forms of pollution are on a downward trend.This post was originally published […]

New laboratory experiments show that a bacterium that lives on grape plants can break down guaiacol—an unpleasant-tasting substance which ruins wines made from grapes exposed to wildfire smoke. Claudia Castro of the U.S. Department of […]

Microplastics and nanoplastics in soils are a growing environmental problem. The extent to which agricultural crops absorb these particles and whether they end up in food has so far been difficult to prove. This is […]

Reducing industrial animal use can help to shrink our carbon footprint and boost health—but doing so means we need nutritious meat alternatives that are also tasty and affordable.This post was originally published on this site.

Wolves had long been extinct in parts of Central Europe. Thanks to strict regulations to protect species, in recent decades they have become more widespread again. This brings new challenges: in many areas, protecting farm […]

How do plants breathe? When do they open and close the tiny pores on their leaves, and what does this mean for their water balance? A research team led by Marburg physicist Professor Martin Koch […]

The cup plant (Silphium perfoliatum) offers an ecologically advantageous alternative to silage maize for bioenergy production. This is the conclusion of a multi-year comparative study conducted by researchers at the University of Bayreuth. Their findings […]

Making renewable natural gas from manure and agricultural residue could make farmers more money, farming more sustainable and—based on a new long-term, on-farm study by Iowa State University researchers—farmland soil richer in carbon.This post was […]