Agricultural and Forestry Science

Landscape Change Leads to Increased Insecticide Use in U.S. Midwest

The continued growth of cropland and loss of natural habitat have increasingly simplified agricultural landscapes in the Midwest.In a study supported in part…

Breeding Procedure Speeds Up Winter Wheat Variety Development

Using a technique that has been known since the 1980s but only more recently routinely implemented, breeders are pollinating wheat plants with corn to produce…

New research shows forest trees remember their roots

Recent studies showed that even genetically identical human twins can have a different chance of getting a disease. This is because each twin has distinct…

UW-Madison Scientists Played Role in Potato Genome Project

The consortium’s work, which is described in the current issue of Nature, turned up more than 39,000 genes and is expected to speed potato research and…

Microalgae could be Texas' next big cash crop

“It's a huge, untapped source of fuel, food, feed, pharmaceuticals and even pollution-busters,” said Dr. Carlos Fernandez, a crop physiologist at the Texas…

Cool-season grasses more profitable than warm-season grasses

Access to swine effluent or waste water can help a producer grow more grass. But a Texas AgriLife Researcher says the grass is “greener” economically if it is…

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