Agricultural and Forestry Science

Creating Sustainability Model for Swine Production; Research Will Increase Productivity, Decrease Costs of Production

With a total of $5 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the multi-disciplinary team, which includes researchers at Purdue University and…

New AgriLife Research germplasm, irrigation management make a difference in corn production

Thomas Marek, AgriLife Research irrigation engineer and superintendent of the North Plains Research Field near Etter, walked through fields of corn this year…

A Labor Saving Way to Monitor Vast Rangelands

Ranchers, government agencies and private land managers often need to survey vast, remote rangelands to see how they are being altered by floods, forest fires…

Scab Resistance in Durum Wheat

While working on the Durum Germplasm Enhancement Project (DGE), Dr. Prem Jauhar and staff at the USDA-ARS Northern Crop Research Laboratory, Fargo, ND…

Digital Panoramas of Rangelands Could Be Rich Source of Research Data

Agricultural Research Service (ARS) hydraulic engineer Mary Nichols uses a digital camera to create a single high-resolution landscape panorama that users can…

If insurance companies pay out too often, farmers will be threatened with ruin in the long term

Insurance can help farmers to survive dry periods. However, it can also result in the long term in overgrazing and therefore threaten their existence if…

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