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US drought pushes cotton prices to ten-year high

Mar 22, 2022 (AFP)

The plant fiber reached $1.3171 per pound (about 453 grams) on the key US futures contract, the highest since July 2011. Rainfall has been exceptionally low sin...

France to cull 'millions' more poultry as bird flu flares

Mar 11, 2022 (AFP)

It is the fourth major flu epidemic for French poultry farms since 2015, mainly in the country's southwest, home to the lucrative yet controversial foie gras li...

Relocating farmland could turn back clock twenty years on carbon emissions, say scientists

Mar 11, 2022 (SPX)

The reimagined world map of agriculture includes large new farming areas for many major crops around the cornbelt in the mid-western US, and below the Sahara de...

We should be eating more insects and using their waste to grow crops, says plant ecologist

Mar 07, 2022 (SPX)

The leftovers from insect production come in two main forms: exuviae, the exoskeletons left behind after molting, and frass, named for the German word for eatin...

NASA to share tools, resources at upcoming agriculture conference

Mar 04, 2022 (SPX)

Agency representatives will discuss information, tools, and resources, drawn from the NASA's Earth observation satellites and science research. Farmers and othe...

Bolsonaro proposes Amazon mining over fertilizer shortages

Mar 03, 2022 (AFP)

The far-right leader said that mineral extraction in indigenous territories -- something vehemently opposed by those local communities and environmentalists -- ...

Big data arrives on the farm

Mar 02, 2022 (SPX)

A new analysis by Glenn Stone, professor of anthropology and of environmental studies in Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, examines how d...

These solar panels pull in water vapor to grow crops in the desert

Mar 02, 2022 (SPX)

"A fraction of the world's population still doesn't have access to clean water or green power, and many of them live in rural areas with arid or semi-arid clima...

Illinois team significantly improves BioCro software for growing virtual crops

Mar 01, 2022 (SPX)

"In the original BioCro, all the math that the modelers were using was mixed into the programming language, which many people weren't familiar with, so it was e...

Risks of using AI to grow our food are substantial

Mar 01, 2022 (SPX)

Imagine a field of wheat that extends to the horizon, being grown for flour that will be made into bread to feed cities' worth of people. Imagine that all autho...

Agriculture: Global cropland could be almost halved

Feb 24, 2022 (SPX)

In an interdisciplinary model-based study, LMU geographers Julia Schneider and Dr. Florian Zabel, together with researchers from the Universities of Basel and H...

A life-changing fertilizer for rural farmers in Kenya

Feb 18, 2022 (SPX)

The situation amounts to a multigenerational crisis as elders have watched their crop yields dwindle over the course of decades. Now Safi Organics is using a te...

Deforestation slows in cocoa king Ivory Coast

Feb 18, 2022 (AFP)

The world's largest cocoa supplier, accounting for more than 40 percent of global output, Ivory Coast boasted 16 million hectares under forest in the 1960s. Tod...

Australian wine giant shakes off China sales collapse

Feb 16, 2022 (AFP)

Treasury Wine Estates, the makers of Penfolds, on Tuesday posted a 7.5 percent year-on-year decline in net profit in the six months to December 31, citing China...

Satellite imagery gives researchers timeline of when swine waste lagoons were built

Feb 15, 2022 (SPX)

Swine waste lagoons are outdoor basins used to store liquid manure produced by swine farming operations. "Historically, we only knew how many pigs were found on...

Kacific and Farmer Charlie team up to boost agricultural output across Pacific

Feb 15, 2022 (SPX)

Kacific and Farmer Charlie will work together to deliver agricultural advice, localised weather information, and agribusiness information - including data from ...

Brazil Chamber passes controversial pesticide bill

Feb 10, 2022 (AFP)

The legislation, which has been in the works since 2002, passed the Chamber of Deputies late Wednesday by a vote of 301 to 150, with two abstentions, and now go...

Monitoring crop health across the Netherlands

Feb 09, 2022 (ESA)

It goes without saying that we all depend on agriculture for food. However, the growing global population and the climate crisis is putting untold pressure on f...

Can eliminating meat production save Planet Earth

Feb 03, 2022 (SPX)

The work is a collaboration between Michael Eisen, professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Patrick Brown, profess...

UK's Kew tribute to Costa Rica at annual orchid fest

Feb 03, 2022 (AFP)

Kew's 26th orchid showcase, opening Saturday, has this year been themed around the central American country hailed for conservation and features more than 5,000...