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Cooped up Belgians in a flap for chickens
May 09, 2020 (AFP)
At the Elevage de Limal farm, Martine and Christopher Denis, chicken rearers for generations, are struggling to keep up with the eggs-straordinary demand for bi...
Vegan rivals smell blood as virus hits meat supply
May 07, 2020 (AFP)
Prices of conventional protein have surged in recent weeks following the temporary closure of at least 18 meat processing plants in the US at a time of already-...
Rain brings optimism for drought-plagued Aussie farmers
May 06, 2020 (AFP)
Kevin Tongue eyes his field in the country's water-deprived southeast as lambs pick at fresh blades of grass finally punching their way through the soil. "The t...
Technique could enable cheaper fertilizer production
May 05, 2020 (SPX)
MIT chemical engineers are working to develop a smaller-scale alternative, which they envision could be used to locally produce fertilizer for farmers in remote...
Intensive farming makes epidemics more likely
May 05, 2020 (UPI)
When researchers in Britain analyzed the evolution of Campylobacter jejuni, a bacterium carried by cattle and the leading cause of gastroenteritis in the develo...
Amino acid swap may help wheat tolerate rising heat
May 04, 2020 (UPI)
Similar to smart thermostats that switch on and off based on heat from sun, the amino acid Rubisco activase, or Rca, turns the plant energy-producing enzyme Rub...
Uber ends Eats delivery in seven markets in strategic pullback
May 04, 2020 (AFP)
Food delivery will end in the Czech Republic, Egypt, Honduras, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Ukraine and Uruguay by June 4, according to a regulatory filing. The chang...
Honey bees face chronic paralysis pandemic in Britain
May 01, 2020 (UPI)
Between 2007 and 2017, scientists visited 24,000 beekeepers to survey the health of commercial bee colonies in England and Wales. In 2007, the disease was found...
UAE wages war on tiny scourge threatening date palms
Apr 28, 2020 (AFP)
"For 24 years, we cultivated our land normally. Then, we had to start spraying five to six times a year against the weevil," said the 60-year-old Emirati, weari...
Amazonians go hungry despite living in one of the most biodiverse places on Earth
Apr 28, 2020 (SPX)
Massive seasonal floods mean many ribeirinhos, a marginalised social group who live alongside rivers in Brazil's Amazonian floodplain forests, struggle to catch...
Virus helps infected bees slip past the guards of healthy hives
Apr 28, 2020 (UPI)
In fact, bees infected with IAPV were more likely to gain entrance to foreign hives than healthy would-be intruders. The research, published Monday in the journ...
Scientist calls for renewed debate on plant breeding technologies
Apr 27, 2020 (UPI)
The controversial technologies could increase food production to help fight global hunger, a study published this month in the journal of Applied Economic Persp...
Device could deliver life-saving treatment to diseased fruit plants
Apr 27, 2020 (UPI)
The new system uses silk-based biomaterials to fabricate a microneedle-like device, which can inject nutrients, antibiotics or other pesticides into plants' cir...
Analysis of pottery fragments shows dairy farming common in Neolithic Europe
Apr 27, 2020 (UPI)
Researchers traced the shift from hunter-gatherer practices to early farming practices over 1,500 years, the University of York statement shows. To analyze this...
Polish farms hit with one-two punch of virus, drought
Apr 26, 2020 (AFP)
"Everyone's panicking. We don't know what's going to happen to us," Adrianna Bukowska-Lazarska, whose farm usually produces more than 300 tonnes of strawberries...
No time to waste to avoid future food shortages
Apr 24, 2020 (SPX)
"Plant scientists are punching above their weight by participating in global, interdisciplinary efforts to find ways to increase crop production under future cl...
Hunter-gatherers developed culturally distinct cuisines 7,000 years ago
Apr 22, 2020 (UPI)
Researchers collected hundreds of fragments from pottery vessels found at 61 different archaeological sites in the Baltic region. Scientists analyzed the fragme...
China fish farmers harvest troubled waters with floating villages
Apr 21, 2020 (AFP)
In the case of coastal Xiapu county, you turn to raising the fish yourself, a shift that has made it one of China's most important aquaculture sites and spawned...
Americans spend more on wasted food than gas, clothes, taxes
Apr 21, 2020 (UPI)
The average American spends more on wasted food than clothing purchases, electricity bills and property taxes. "Across America, people report that saving money ...
Declining snowmelt threatens farmers in the western U.S.
Apr 20, 2020 (UPI)
For the new study, published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change, scientists looked at drainage basins that are heavily reliant on snowmelt runoff and f...
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