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The research team looked for ways to help farmers assess their soil carbon in a quick, inexpensive way. They evaluated a low-cost portable "reflectometer." The reflectometer the team evaluated collects infrared reflectance at ten wavelengths, whi
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The declaration of a shortage by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has been anticipated for months and was triggered by the spiraling decline of Lake Mead, which stores water used by Arizona, Nevada, California and Mexico.
Rural America lost more population in the latest census, highlighting an already severe worker shortage in the nation's farming and ranching regions and drawing calls from those industries for immigration reform to help ease the problem.
"Soil acidity and low concentrations of exchangeable calcium and magnesium are among the main factors that limit coffee yield," Soratto explains. "So we did a field experiment to test the effect of band application of limestone and phosphogypsu
CASA GRANDE, Ariz. (AP) -- A harvester rumbles through the fields in the early morning light, mowing down rows of corn and chopping up ears, husks and stalks into mulch for feed at a local dairy.
Science fiction has long floated the idea of a device that can produce any kind of object one can imagine. Star Trek called it a replicator, while other writers have referred to it as a Santa Claus Machine.
Will this cause more food shortages? A fungus called phytophthora is infecting commercial and home vegetable gardens across the country. Here's how to diagnose and treat it in your own garden.
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As Brazil gets hit repeatedly by unusually low temperatures, destroying crops, the flooding in China, including Henan province -- which accounts for 10% of their grains production -- has damaged wheat, infrastructure, and thousands of large hog farms
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If actors in the corporate food regime were required to internalize the true costs of production, according to a report by Family Farm Action Alliance,"their businesses would no longer be economically viable and they would not be competitive with ind
On Tuesday, a wicked cold snap, with temperatures dropping below zero, delivered a massive blow to farmers across Brazil's coffee belt, damaging trees and destroying next year's crop, according to Reuters.
At a time when food prices are already rising aggressively, agricultural production in the United States is being absolutely devastated by a drought that many are calling "the worst" in American history.
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A perfect storm of trouble--extreme dry conditions, a volatile commodity market, and climbing expenses--have millers and bakers passing on rising costs to customers.
Africans have long been told that our agriculture is backward and should be abandoned for a 21st-century version of the Green Revolution that enabled India to feed itself.
Dr Doreen Boyd, a co-author, Rights Lab Associate Director, and Professor of Earth Observation at the University of Nottingham led the ESRC grant that supported this work. She said: "We have demonstrated how remote sensing data enables the identific
To get around that problem, researchers led by Luciana Gatti of the National Institute for Space Research in Sao Jose dos Campos in Brazil used aircraft to collect nearly 600 CO2 and carbon monoxide samples, from 2010 to 2018, at elevations up to 4.5
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