Agricultural and Forestry Science

Agricultural productivity loss as a result of soil and crop damage from flooding

The basin contains a slow-moving, meandering river; fertile soils and productive farmlands; deep sand and gravel deposits; sloughs and uplands; and one of the…

Frequent flyers, bottle gourds crossed the ocean many times

“Beginning in the 1950s we thought that bottle gourds floated across the ocean from Africa,” said Logan Kistler, post-doctoral researcher in anthropology, Penn…

MSU Researchers Find Rice Seed Treatments Effective, Worth Investment

One recent example is the development of seeds treated with insecticides to discourage early damage by crop pests. Researchers at Mississippi State University…

Worldwide study finds that fertilizer destabilizes grasslands

Fertilizer could be too much of a good thing for the world's grasslands, according to study findings to be published online Feb. 16 by the journal Nature.The…

University of Guelph study assesses environmental impact of Ontario corn production

The study reports estimated county-level energy and GHG intensity of grain corn, stover and cob production in Ontario from 2006-2011. According to the paper's…

Study Shows Promise for Castor Crop Planting in Florida

Those techniques include spacing plants properly and using harvest aids to defoliate the plant when it matures.Growers in the U.S. want to mechanically harvest…

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