Agricultural and Forestry Science

UMass Amherst Team Offers New Integrated Building Model to Improve Success of Fish Farming Operations

Those who have ventured to turn a vacant barn or garage into an aquaculture business have too often been defeated by high energy and feed costs,…

5-10 percent corn yield jump using erosion-slowing cover crops shown in ISU study

The results are the best yet in the ongoing research, according to Ken Moore, Distinguished Professor of agronomy and primary investigator on the project, who…

Grafted Watermelon Plants Take in More Pesticides

Although only low amounts of pesticides appeared in the fruit in the study, the scientists advise that commercial farmers use gcautionh when grafting…

Fresh city tomatoes, any time

What could be fresher? On his way home from the office, the computer scientist harvests tomatoes from his company‘s rooftop greenhouse. The plants growing…

For Gardeners and Farmers, the Earth Moves on Wednesday

Cornell University, New York’s Land Grant university and home of the Northeast Regional Climate Center and the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, has…

Improving crops from the roots up

In a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), the researchers have shown that they can…

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