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Farmers use radishes to soften, fertilize fields
Sep 18, 2009 |
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(AP) -- White radishes are taking root on Tony Luthman's farm, the start of what he hopes will create a welcome mat for the corn he plants in the spring.
K-State plant pathologists develop online teaching modules used globally
Jul 14, 2009 |
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Managing plant diseases that threaten the food supply and economy is a challenge for agriculturalists around the world.
Projected food, energy demands seen to outpace production
Jun 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- With the caloric needs of the planet expected to soar by 50 percent in the next 40 years, planning and investment in global agriculture will become critically important, according a new report released today ...
A chicken coup: Group seeks to protect rare breeds
Apr 24, 2009 |
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(AP) -- At about the time Foghorn Leghorn appeared on the Looney Toons drawing board in 1946, he began disappearing from America's dinner tables.
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Abandoned farmlands are key to sustainable bioenergy
Jun 23, 2008 |
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Biofuels can be a sustainable part of the world's energy future, especially if bioenergy agriculture is developed on currently abandoned or degraded agricultural lands, report scientists from the Carnegie Institution and ...
Experiment demonstrates 110 years of sustainable agriculture
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Sep 29, 2008 |
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A plot of land on the campus of Auburn University shows that 110 years of sustainable farming practices can produce similar cotton crops to those using other methods.
Researchers unlock genetic secrets of date palm
Sep 15, 2009 |
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Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar have mapped a draft version of the date palm genome, unlocking many of its genetic secrets.
New tools for sustainable farming
Aug 26, 2009 |
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Environmentalists are just as fond of talking about it as are politicians, economists or marketing experts - "sustainability" has become a buzzword. The problem is that the term sustainability can refer to ...
Genetic secrets of date palm unlocked
May 01, 2009 |
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Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar (WCMC-Q) have mapped a draft version of the date palm genome, unlocking many of its genetic secrets.
Population movements and money remittances spur forest regrowth
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Aug 31, 2007 |
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A study of forest cover in El Salvador in the September issue of BioScience presents novel findings on how economic globalization, land policy changes, and monies sent to family members by emigrants have transformed agricu ...
Recycling Food Scraps into Gardens
Sep 07, 2009 |
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Each weekday, food scraps are collected from the Maryland Food Distribution Authority in Jessup, Md., and from small local food service and marketing establishments. Materials that do not contain metal, glass, ...
NM farmers work to preserve native chile varieties
May 11, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Gene Lopez has just finished planting his chile field in the same way he's planted his heat-packed crop for three decades. But as the years pass, there seems to be more immediacy behind each seed he places in the ...
Biochar: turning waste into wealth
Jun 10, 2009 |
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As all gardeners know, manure helps the flowers grow. But that manure also gives off greenhouse gases, contributing to global climate change.
Iowa State researcher studies the sustainability of the bioeconomy
Aug 30, 2007 |
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This spring farmers responded to the ethanol industry's demand for grain by increasing their corn acreage by 19 percent over last year, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates.
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