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China's state grain buyer resumes US soybean purchases
Dec 20, 2018 (AFP)
It is the latest signal from China that it is pressing ahead with a December 1 agreement between US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping aimed a...
Recruiting ants to fight weeds on the farm
Dec 19, 2018 (SPX)
"These ants are naturally present in the fields," said Barbara Baraibar Padro, a postdoctoral scholar in plant science, Penn State. "They are able to remove a h...
Sphinx molecule to rescue African farmers from witchweed
Dec 19, 2018 (SPX)
Nevertheless, an effective method to control Striga infestation remains a challenge. In a new study reported in Science, ITbM's chemists and biologists have com...
Understanding food's carbon footprint
Dec 19, 2018 (SPX)
The massive carbon footprint of red meat means that even consuming slightly less of it - substituting something else for beef once a week, for instance - can ma...
Changes in agriculture could cut sector non-CO2 greenhouse gas emissions by up to 50 percent
Dec 19, 2018 (SPX)
IIASA researcher Stefan Frank led the team which carried out the first detailed analysis of agricultural non-CO2 mitigation using a combination of four differen...
IS 'annihilation' of Iraqi farms leaves haunting legacy
Dec 13, 2018 (AFP)
Based on interviews with dozens of farmers, Amnesty's new report found the jihadists' "scorched-earth tactics" meant Sinjar's farmers, particularly those from t...
Red gold: Afghanistan saffron production grows
Dec 12, 2018 (AFP)
The delicate pistil of the flower has for centuries been used in cooking around the world and because of its relatively high price has been dubbed "red gold" by...
German farmers sue government over missed climate targets
Dec 08, 2018 (AFP)
"Some describe this as a fight between David and Goliath. To me, that's besides the point," said Schwienhorst, who suffered his poorest harvest in three decades...
Egypt's fertile Nile Delta threatened by climate change
Dec 07, 2018 (AFP)
The fertile arc-shaped basin is home to nearly half the country's population, and the river that feeds it provides Egypt with 90 percent of its water needs. But...
'Worst drought I have seen': Afghan farmers forced to flee
Dec 07, 2018 (AFP)
After his crops dried up in Gormach district of Badghis province earlier this year, Ishaqzai rented a truck and drove his family hundreds of kilometres through ...
Climate change offers sparkling prospects to English winemakers
Dec 06, 2018 (AFP)
Strolling through the Pinglestone vineyard in Hampshire, southern England, under a pale autumn sun, winemaker James Bowerman is smiling broadly. "The (Pinot) Me...
Increasing crop insurances adoption in developing countries
Dec 06, 2018 (SPX)
For decades, companies, aid organizations and governments in developing countries have tried to increase the numbers of farmers who insure their crops. However,...
US farmers more cautious than hopeful after China trade deal
Dec 04, 2018 (AFP)
Trump took to Twitter Monday to declare that his weekend agreement with Xi Jinping for a cease-fire on new trade tariffs meant "Farmers will be a very BIG and F...
Soil tilling, mulching key to China's potato crop
Dec 04, 2018 (SPX)
Even though it is such an important crop there, potato yields are lower than they could be. The area has a dry climate with uneven precipitation. Droughts are c...
New biocontainment strategy controls spread of escaped GMOs
Nov 27, 2018 (SPX)
The applications of bioengineered microbes have appeared in a number of fields, including agriculture and energy production. Engineered microalgae, for example,...
The tragedy of the commons - minus the tragedy
Nov 27, 2018 (SPX)
Scientists have long believed that when there is open access to a shared resource, people will inevitably overuse it, leading to ruin for everyone - an idea kno...
French wine market to shrink further, but organics surge: report
Nov 23, 2018 (AFP)
Sales from vineyards which have quit using chemical pesticides to protect against pests and mould made up just 3.7 percent of the French market last year, with ...
Monsanto appeals Roundup cancer verdict
Nov 21, 2018 (AFP)
"By its appeal from the judgment and amended judgment, Monsanto also seeks appellate review of the trial court's order denying Monsanto's motion for new trial,"...
New study details the genetic evolution of domesticated animals
Nov 20, 2018 (UPI)
Specifically, geneticists at Earlham set out to measure the abundance and distribution of miRNAs in different tissue types among domesticated animals. MicroRNAs...
Floods ravage rice production in Niger's Diffa region
Nov 20, 2018 (UPI)
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