Agricultural and Forestry Science

Low Levels of Blood Calcium in Dairy Cows May Affect Cow Health and Productivity

The health of dairy cows after giving birth plays a big factor in the quantity and quality of the milk the cows produce. Now, researchers at the University of…

Researchers uncover origins of cattle farming in China

The domestication of cattle is a key achievement in human history. Until now, researchers believed that humans started domesticating cattle around 10,000 years…

Global map provides new insights into land use

In order to assess the global impacts of land use on the environment and help provide appropriate countermeasures, a group of researchers under the leadership…

Study challenges soil testing for potassium and the fertilizer value of potassium chloride

Three University of Illinois soil scientists have serious concerns with the current approach to potassium management that has been in place for the past five…

Foot and mouth disease in sub-Saharan Africa moves over short distances, wild buffalo are a problem

The study, published in mBio®, the online open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology, sheds light on how the type of FMD virus called SAT 2…

Nitrogen fertilizer remains in soils and leaks towards groundwater for decades, researchers find

Nitrogen fertilizer applied to crops lingers in the soil and leaks out as nitrate for decades towards groundwater – “much longer than previously thought,”…

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