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Yearbook on China’s Agricultural Products 2013

Composed by a professional agriculture consulting company ---- Beijing Orient Agribusiness Consultants Limited (CNAGRI), Yearbook on China's Agricultural Products 2013 (Chinese edition and English edition) will be issued in 2013. This is the first Yearbook on China's agricultural products that is composed fully in compliance with the international standard statistical format. The Yearbook is ...

Jun. 28, 2013

Strategic Analysis of the West African Agricultural Chemicals Market

The study analyses the agriculture chemical market in West Africa. The agriculture chemical market being analysed are the fertilisers and the crop protection chemicals in Nigeria and Ghana. In addition, fertilizer and crop protection chemicals demand in 2010, revenue and forecasted growth rate are highlighted, along with the market engineering measurements are provided; the pricing trends; ...

Jan. 12, 2012

MARVIN™ technology saves agriculture & horticulture time and money

Four hundred thousand seedlings, nearly half of what a plant grower of, say, young tomato plants, produces in one season; this is the amount that sorting machines with the MARVIN technology can process in a single day. They rapidly make 3D models of the plants and accurately evaluate their size and features in milliseconds. “The information can be automatically recorded in a database and ...

Nov. 21, 2016

By Wageningen University and Research Centre

EPA-funded Researchers Lead the Way in Children`s Health Research

Protecting children's health is one of the highest priorities at EPA. To ensure healthy U.S. children, three EPA-funded researchers will assume key roles in the National Children's Study, the largest study ever on the effects of environmental and genetic factors on child and human health in the United States. The study will follow a representative sample of 100,000 children from before birth to ...

Oct. 10, 2007

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Europe can improve decision making by better monitoring of agriculture

The greening and cross-compliance measures that have been introduced in Europe's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) pose challenges to policy evaluators. Policy makers lack good data to monitor if their measures are effective and efficient. In a large pilot a consortium of researchers with 1,100 farmers from nine European countries have showed that it is possible to collect indicators on ...

May 11, 2017

By Wageningen University and Research Centre

UF researchers develop effective, inexpensive citrus greening detector

While a commercially available cure for crop-killing citrus greening remains elusive, University of Florida researchers have developed a tool to help growers combat the insidious disease: an efficient, inexpensive and easy-to-use sensor that can quickly detect whether a tree has been infected. That early warning could give growers enough lead time to destroy plagued trees and save the ...

Jan. 28, 2015

By The University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences

UF/IFAS researchers use pigs to root out problem weeds

Sometimes, the old-fashioned ways are the best ways. Back before chemical pesticides and herbicides, farmers had to come up with ways to kill the weeds that took over their fields. One method used “back in the day” was letting pigs loose in fields that were not being used for crops for a season and allowing the pigs to do what they do naturally: dig up the roots of weeds and ...

Jul. 27, 2015

By The University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences

USDA awards more than US$28m in specialty crop research

Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer has announced that USDA awarded more than $28 million through the Specialty Crop Research Initiative (SCRI) to solve critical specialty crop agriculture issues, address priorities and solve problems through multifunctional research and extension. The Specialty Crop Research Initiative was established by the 2008 Farm Bill to support the specialty crop industry by ...

Oct. 16, 2008

By U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Announces New Report on Scientific Breakthroughs from USDA in 2013

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced a new report on scientific breakthroughs discovered by USDA researchers that led to new patents and inventions with the potential for commercial application and potential economic growth. Innovations included in the report range from flour made out of chardonnay grape seeds that prevents weight gain to antimicrobial packets that keep food from ...

Apr. 23, 2014

By U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

Bridgestone Americas Breaking Ground on New Biorubber Process Research Center

Bridgestone Americas, Inc. (BSA) today announced the groundbreaking of its Biorubber Process Research Center, a research and development project in Mesa, Ariz., to investigate the use of the Guayule plant as an alternative natural rubber source. The invitation-only groundbreaking ceremony will take place on ...

May 9, 2013

By The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) - USDA

CICP Announces Advancement of Food and Agriculture Innovation Initiative with Completion of an Industry Report, Introduction of New Name and Brand

With support from the State of Indiana, leading businesses, and academic institutions, the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership (CICP) has advanced their food and agriculture innovation initiative by creating a name and brand for the organization and publishing a “first-of-its-kind” industry report that details innovation in the State and identifies opportunities for growth. ...

Nov. 5, 2014

By Dow AgroSciences LLC

UF researchers develop machine to count dropped citrus, identify problem areas in groves

As citrus greening continues to impact Florida’s groves, growers have found that they need a way to quickly and accurately count the amount of fruit dropped early to help identify problem areas, which will save time and money. University of Florida researchers Wonsuk “Daniel” Lee, Daeun “Dana” Choi, Reza Ehsani and Fritz Roka devised a “machine vision ...

Aug. 12, 2015

By The University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences

State FIFRA Issues Research and Evaluation Group Convenes Semi-Annual Full Committee Meetings

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May 28, 2013

By Acta Group

ARS plant collections help safeguard crops

In the months ahead, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists plan to collect walnuts from Kyrgyzstan, grasses from Russia, and carrots and sunflowers from fields across the Southeastern United States in efforts that will enhance one of the nation's most effective tools for protecting the food supply. Researchers will make the trips to collect plants with useful ...

Jan. 5, 2010

By U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

ARS helps preserve indigenous crops in Ecuador

An Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientist is working with an international group of researchers on a project to improve the livelihoods of people in rural Ecuador by promoting the conservation and use of indigenous crops. People in and around Cotacachi, in the northern Andean highlands, have been farming for thousands of years, and the result is a stunning diversity of crops, some of them ...

Aug. 5, 2009

By The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) - USDA

Compost and climate change: a novel mitigation strategy?

Native soils are thought to take up more of the greenhouse gas methane than land used for farming. This study shows that, while agriculture can exert an adverse impact on soil methane uptake, the application of soil conditioners like compost may compensate for loss of the methane sink function. The researchers propose new land management strategies based on this finding. Agriculture has become ...

Jul. 23, 2015

By European Commission, Environment DG

Effects of chemical fertiliser and animal manure on soil health compared

Fertilising crops with cattle manure can lead to better soil quality than when synthetic fertiliser is used, recent research indicates. The use of cattle manure in the study led to greater soil fertility by encouraging higher microbial activity, and the researchers suggest that it could potentially improve soil’s ability to cope with periods of difficult growing conditions. The ...

Jun. 6, 2013

By European Commission, Environment DG

Identifying factors in Atrazine’s reduced weed control

Invasive broadleaf weeds can destroy corn crops and fallow fields. Farmers use the chemical atrazine in herbicides to protect their plants. Despite atrazine’s controversial environmental impacts, it can provide long term residual control of many weed species. However, the loss of atrazine’s effectiveness has been a challenge for farmers in northeastern Colorado. In a collaborative ...

Jan. 19, 2011

By Soil Science Society of America (SSSA)

Arsenic in irrigation water is transferred to crops

A team of researchers from the University of Valladolid (UVA) and the Salamanca Institute of Natural Resources and Agrobiology (IRNASA-CSIC) has shown that potatoes irrigated with arsenic-rich water contain this element at levels up to 35 times higher than crops on which this water was not used. The scientists have also confirmed the impact of water with high arsenic content on beet, carrot and ...

May 21, 2009

By ScienceDaily

Nutrient Management Plans: A Study in Cause and Effect

It seems practical on the surface. Nutrient management plans (NMPs) should supply plants with ideal amounts of nutrients, minimize runoff, and maintain or even improve the soil condition. And the farmer behind the plan would work with a set of conservation practices designed to reduce harmful pollutants while still obtaining optimal crop yields. However, many U.S. Animal Feeding Operations (AFOs) ...

Mar. 1, 2012

By Soil Science Society of America (SSSA)

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