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Planet and NASA Harvest launch commercial partnership to advance food security
Jan 13, 2023 (SPX)
The offering will combine Planet's satellite data and other publicly-available datasets with the analytics expertise of the combined NASA Harvest team, facilita...
Rice breeding breakthrough to feed billions
Jan 11, 2023 (SPX)
First-generation hybrids of crop plants often show higher performance than their parent strains, a phenomenon called hybrid vigor. But this does not persist if ...
Tech at CES shows how farmers can save time, money and the environment
Jan 08, 2023 (AFP)
Both start-ups and agro-industry giants are exhibiting such cutting-edge tools -- tools to help farmers collect and analyze data and improve decision-making -- ...
Judges drop probe into French Antilles pesticide scandal
Jan 06, 2023 (AFP)
In a rare five-page explanation of their ruling, seen by AFP late Thursday, the investigators acknowledged that the chlordecone pesticide had caused a "health s...
Reducing nitrogen use key to human and planetary health: study
Jan 04, 2023 (AFP)
Reducing nitrogen pollution from global croplands is a "grand challenge," the group of international researchers said in a study in Nature outlining a dozen urg...
Achieving foundational security for food systems
Jan 04, 2023 (SPX)
DARPA's Foundational Security for Food Systems (FS2) program will explore a pathway-based approach to provide advanced threat detection and warning of crop dama...
Soaring fertilizer prices could see millions more undernourished
Dec 27, 2022 (SPX)
The war in Ukraine has led to the blockade of millions of tonnes of wheat, barley and corn, but reduced food exports from the region are less of a driver of foo...
N. Zealand's amended cow burp tax plans still stink, say farmers
Dec 21, 2022 (AFP)
New Zealand is planning a "world first" levy on emissions of methane and nitrous oxide, produced by the nation's six million cows and 26 million sheep as a step...
France bets on tech and transparency to beat Chinese caviar
Dec 12, 2022 (AFP)
"Caviar!" he shouts as the monitor shows the right sparkle around each little round ball. "Over-mature!" comes the next shout, indicating the fish's pregnancy c...
PETA takes UK military to court for rejecting fake fur hats
Dec 09, 2022 (AFP)
The tall black hats are worn by the elite regiments, including for the Changing of the Guard ceremony outside Buckingham Palace, and are one of the best-known s...
Experts urge caution over biotech that can wipe out insect pests
Dec 09, 2022 (AFP)
The appeal was launched at crunch biodiversity talks in Montreal, where delegates from almost all the world's countries were meeting to negotiate a strategy to ...
Grape expectations: India's biggest winemaker seeks millions
Dec 08, 2022 (AFP)
Wine makes up less than one percent of India's massive alcohol market, with spirits the overwhelming drink of choice in the nation of 1.4 billion people. On ave...
Globalstar signs commercial agreement with Wiagro to supply IoT Transmitters for Agtech sector
Dec 08, 2022 (SPX)
The Smart Silobag is utilized during the post-harvest process to increase efficiency during storage and transport. The IoT solution developed by Wiagro can coll...
Canadian university identifies low carbon foods for student meals
Dec 08, 2022 (AFP)
"I'm surprised to see that a dish with meat is better than a vegetarian dish," comments Elizabeth Labonte, a chemical engineering student, referring to their en...
Soil in midwestern US is eroding 10 to 1,000 times faster than it forms, study finds
Dec 08, 2022 (SPX)
The study, which appears in the journal Geology, makes use of a rare element, beryllium-10, or 10Be, that occurs when stars in the Milky Way explode and send hi...
World's first space rice seeds back from orbit
Dec 08, 2022 (XNA)
Chinese astronauts of the Shenzhou XIV mission have returned with the world's first rice seeds produced in orbit, a feat that will allow scientists to probe the...
'Keeping it fresh': Greek growers use nature to clean crops
Dec 08, 2022 (AFP)
"(The water) keeps the leeks live and fresh...and it saves us using tap water to rinse them at home," explains 48-year-old grower Costas Antoniou. The source of...
French foie gras in short supply, forcing farmers to adapt
Dec 07, 2022 (AFP)
After millions of ducks and geese were culled to halt the epidemic, some farmers say they are having to take an unprecedented step -- using females to produce t...
Chinese scientists complete rice, Arabidopsis life-cycle experiments in space
Dec 06, 2022 (XNA)
With the safe landing of the Shenzhou-14 spaceship's return capsule at the Dongfeng landing site Sunday night, the seeds of rice and Arabidopsis, which have und...
It's not them, it's you: Why potatoes don't deserve their bad reputation
Dec 06, 2022 (SPX)
In fact, research literature has previously indicated potatoes may have a detrimental effect on health, such as possibly increasing the likelihood of developing...
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