Organic soybean producers using no-till and reduced-tillage production methods that incorporate cover crops—strategies that protect soil health and water quality—can achieve similar yields at competitive costs compared ...
Environment
Mar 31, 2020
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Many millions of homeowners use feeders to attract birds. But a two-year study featured in the journal Invasive Plant Science and Management suggests there may be one unintended consequence to this popular hobby. Bird feed ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 20, 2020
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The environmental effects of agriculture and food are hotly debated. But the most widely used method of analysis often tends to overlook vital factors such as biodiversity, soil quality, pesticide impacts and societal shifts, ...
Environment
Mar 18, 2020
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Entomologists at UC Riverside have documented that a species of native sweat bee widespread throughout North and South America has a daily routine that makes it a promising pollinator.
Ecology
Mar 4, 2020
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Australia's hottest and driest year on record has slashed crop production, with summer output expected to fall to the lowest levels on record, according to official projections released Tuesday.
Environment
Feb 18, 2020
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University of Freiburg publishes a guide on the importance of pollinators for Brazilian farmers.
Plants & Animals
Feb 10, 2020
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When food makes people sick, some blame birds because they hang around farms, and their feces can contain E. coli, Salmonella and Campylobacter, three common pathogens that can cause food-borne illness.
Plants & Animals
Jan 31, 2020
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Recent models are telling us that, as our climate warms up, herbivores and pests will cause increased damage to agricultural crops. One study predicted that crop yield lost to insects increases 10 to 25 percent for every ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 21, 2020
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Farmers could soon be growing tomatoes bunched like grapes in a storage unit, on the roof of a skyscraper, or even in space. That's if a clutch of new gene-edited crops prove as fruitful as the first batch.
Plants & Animals
Dec 23, 2019
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Intensive agriculture may be nourishing most of the Earth's inhabitants, but it's doing the opposite to earth itself. Its dependence on singular crops, heavy plowing machinery, fossil-fuel based fertilizers and pesticides ...
Environment
Dec 20, 2019
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