Agricultural and Forestry Science

Enjoying a good drop of wine with a good environmental conscience

Waste water management plays a significant role here. For the vintner, conscious handling of water resources means considerable saving potential and for…

Research Tests New Tool to Guide Reintroduction of the American Chestnut

Ongoing efforts to reintroduce the American Chestnut are labor intensive and expensive, in part because they rely on genetic cross breeding to produce a tree…

Neiker-Tecnalia develops new types of substrates using sewage sludge and metallurgical waste

Sludge from waste water treatment, ash from biomass combustion, metallurgical waste, and barley straw have been used . The new substrates were found to have…

Pesticide additives cause drifting droplets, but can be controlled

Carlos Corvalan, an associate professor of food science, said understanding how the additives work together means they could be designed to decrease the…

New antibiotic could make food safer and cows healthier

The new antibiotic, an analog of the widely used food preservative nisin, also has potential to be a boon to the dairy industry as a treatment for bovine…

Change Globally, React Locally: Researchers Find African Farmers Need Better Climate Change Data to Improve Farming Practices

“Quantifying local people’s perceptions to climate change, and their assessments of which changes matter, is fundamental to addressing the dual challenge of…

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