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Every farmer wants to see their crops grow healthily, develop fully, and yield properly in both quantity and quality. To achieve all this, crop plants must have enough of every essential nutrient ...

Five years ago, when United Nations member states adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the resolution made it clear that tackling the current global challenges would require collaborative partnerships. The 17 Sustainable ...

A recent survey found the average parent is no better at math or science than a typical sixth grader. While most of us wouldn’t want to admit parity to an 11-year-old, it’s ...

Biodiversity loss threatens national security. We need to invest in technologies to preserve our vital food varieties. As the impacts of climate change intensify — from water scarcity to raging fires and ...

"We are seeing the world become far more agile through the use of technology," Alison Sunstrum, founder of CNSRV-X, said during her Oct. 27 appearance on an Innovation in a Growing Agriculture ...

Outsized wildfires, rising sea levels and disappearing glaciers are dramatic signs of climate change, but not the only ones, scientists say. New research from the University of California’s Division of Agriculture and ...

This article was produced in partnership with CGIAR’s Platform for Big Data in Agriculture. Catch up with all the sessions from the Platform’s 2020 Convention here. Despite the utopian promise of “human fuel” ...

Illumitex adds a mobile app for real-time engagement between horticultural AI and indoor growers - FarmVisionAI, an award winning Agriculture AI company, announces the release of their mobile app designed to engage growers in-field with ...

Soil alarmists such as Barbara Baarsma, professor of economics and director of Rabobank Amsterdam, argue that dutch soil is doing badly. The Environment Council also takes this view. Anyone who digs a ...

Gain a Deeper View Understanding what’s happening under the ground is critical for many industries. Current solutions for measuring environmental data are primarily based on often-inefficient wired technology, or on expensive & ...

The European Potato Trade Association is pleased to announce the appointment of Romans Vorssas the new Technical Affairs Director of the Association, with effect as of today, 26 October 2020. Romans Vorss ...

The Ministry of Agriculture will release two new potato varieties, which will benefit producers to improve their marketing. Ten organizations and more than 200 semi-llerists will be direct beneficiaries of the two ...

FAO Regional Conference breaks attendance record with more than 540 participants and close to 30,000 following it through digital platforms 21 October 2020, Managua/Santiago/Rome - The 36th Session of FAO's Regional Conference for ...

In Brazil, it is estimated that there are 100 thousand hectares of cultivation spread over several states of the country, generating a production of 3.8 million tons, according to IBGE / 2018 ...

Researchers are gathering samples from farms across the Island as the second season of the Living Laboratories project hits harvest time. The living lab concept brings together scientists, watershed groups and farmers ...

As farmers continue to struggle with labor shortages, technology steps in with innovative tools to help bridge the gap. The United Nations estimates the world’s population will expand to nearly 10 billion ...

The day I became a farmer, I became less important in the eyes of other people and society—and the experience led me to understand the value of telling stories about agriculture as ...

The use of field robots was one of the focal points on the first day of the 22nd Work Science Colloquium at the Agroscope Research Institute in Tänikon TG. Researchers from Germany, ...

Tissue culture technology is being widely used for large-scale plant multiplication and gives a science-based solution for plant propagation, disease elimination and plant improvement, said Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC) Chairman Dr ...

Farmers who want to keep marestail and other winter annuals like henbit and purple dead nettle from overrunning their 2021 fields can get a head start this fall.  “Marestail is much easier ...

When it comes to farming, becoming more sustainable can also mean becoming more profitable. So it’s only natural that farmers would look to Spartans for help going — and making — green. ...

Judith Nyiraneza, living lab co-lead scientist, says her colleagues at Agriculture Canada are interested in watching the living lab model and the results the work is producing. (Rick Gibbs/CBC) Researchers are gathering samples ...

ABSTRACT CRISPR-cas gene editing in crop plants could significantly speed up the progress of breeding programs. Strikingly in the agricultural sector, the number of CRISPR-cas patents originating from Europe trails far behind ...

Farming requires a high tolerance for dancing with nature. That’s especially true for North Dakota producers such as Mark Cheatley. In places, his soil poses a particular challenge: salinity creating chemical reactions ...

Researcher Ximena Silveyra of the Institute of Biological Research in Mar del Plata, Argentina, carries out the project that studies the protective effect of neurons of molecules present in potato.Alzheimer's disease is ...