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Groundwater depletion means 'peak grain' has come, gone for some High Plains states

Oct 06, 2020 (UPI)

To more accurately predict future grain yields, researchers looked at the relationship between levels of water extraction from the Ogallala aquifer and the amou...

Storms devastate rice paddies in Italy's 'golden triangle'

Oct 06, 2020 (AFP)

Storms at the weekend, when the region was lashed by half the yearly average rainfall in just one day, dealt a severe blow to Europe's biggest rice producer, fl...

Changing economy and climate hit Austria's Alpine pastures

Oct 04, 2020 (AFP)

"I've been doing this since I was a little boy," Rieser says of the ancestral tradition in which cattle are decorated for their journey from the high Alpine Gra...

Drought forces Namibia to auction 100 buffalo

Oct 02, 2020 (AFP)

The semi-arid southern African country said the animals will come from Waterberg Plateau Park, a national reserve located in central Namibia. "The auction is......

NASA Technology to reveal crop health insights for agriculture industry

Oct 01, 2020 (SPX)

The technology, conceived at Goddard by CTI Principal Investigator Murzy Jhabvala, is small enough to fit on a cube satellite, or CubeSat, a type of miniaturize...

Flatworms could replace rabbits as models for skin products

Oct 01, 2020 (UPI)

The use of rabbits and other animals for product testing has long raised questions of ethics and sustainability. Human skin cells in a petri dish are sometimes ...

Green shoots: Rooftop farming takes off in Singapore

Sep 30, 2020 (AFP)

The 10,000 square-foot (930 square-metre) site is among a growing number of rooftop farms in the space-starved country, part of a drive to produce more food loc...

California wine country faces long battle as fire explodes

Sep 29, 2020 (AFP)

The so-called Glass Fire enveloping some of northern California's world-famous vineyards has scorched 42,000 acres (17,000 hectares) and remains zero percent co...

African cattle bred for toughness tested by climate change

Sep 28, 2020 (AFP)

Their ability to withstand extreme weather and sickness will be put to the test in coming decades as climate change exacerbates the continent's extreme weather,...

Brazil's meat giant JBS launches anti-deforestation plan

Sep 23, 2020 (AFP)

The company also said it was launching a fund to promote the preservation of the rainforest with a contribution of 250 million reais ($45 million) over five yea...

German bakery helps deaf Chinese earn their daily bread

Sep 20, 2020 (AFP)

Bach's employs mainly hearing-impaired staff, whose banter over trays of pumpkin bread, Danish sausage rolls and apple turnovers is done entirely in sign langua...

Bushmeat trade changes hint at erosion of cultural taboos in West Africa

Sep 18, 2020 (UPI)

New survey data, published Friday in the journal Oryx, revealed in an uptick in the trade of several species that forage on local crops, including the green mon...

Scientists teach bees to pollinate sunflowers based on scent

Sep 17, 2020 (UPI)

For the experiment, scientists gave bees from a hive food scented with a sunflower-like odor. When hives with scent-trained bees were used to pollinate sunflowe...

Farmed soils are thinning across the globe, study finds

Sep 15, 2020 (UPI)

To estimate the longevity of soils across the globe, researchers in Britain, Belgium and China compiled soil erosion data from 255 locations in 38 countries on ...

Some American cities could grow all their food locally, study finds

Sep 14, 2020 (UPI)

The analysis, which looked at how population, geography and diet would impact the localization of the American food supply, showed most Northeastern cities woul...

Asia import ban adds to German pork woes

Sep 14, 2020 (AFP)

Japan on Monday joined China and South Korea in saying it would suspend pork imports from Germany after it confirmed a first case of African swine fever in the ...

China halts imports of German pork after swine fever case

Sep 12, 2020 (AFP)

Germany is Europe's biggest pork producer and recently saw a surge in demand from China after it suffered an outbreak of the same disease. Scientists detected s...

Digitizing supply chains to lift farmers out of poverty

Sep 11, 2020 (SPX)

For the last five years, however, cocoa supply chains in villages around the Ivory Coast, Cameroon, and Ghana have been transformed. A suite of digital solution...

Australia crop output bounces back as rains ease drought

Sep 08, 2020 (AFP)

The agriculture department said production of major winter crops including wheat, barley and canola would increase substantially, taking output 20 percent above...

Beyond Meat makes China push with factories near Shanghai

Sep 08, 2020 (AFP)

The US substitute meat startup said it plans to open two facilities near Shanghai, after reaching an agreement with the Jiaxing Economic & Technological Develop...