Agricultural and Forestry Science

“The majority of the phosphorus in plant feed ingredients is bound in phytate,” said U of I animal sciences professor Hans Stein. “It is difficult for pigs to…

The project analyses the effects of the change of institutions that should regulate agricultural land use after the collapse of socialism on agricultural land…

As forests in South and Central America are cleared for agriculture and other human uses, populations of these arboreal leaf eaters, which depend on large…

Will the global agricultural system be able to respond to increasing demand for raw material in the mid-term? This question was one of the key topics of this…

In a perspective for the journal Science, Brian Dilkes, a Purdue assistant professor of genetics, and Ivan Baxter, a research computational biologist for the…

Growing demand, rising prices and costs as well as and land scarcity will require further productivity increases in beef and sheep production if production is…