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Roadsides may not look like wildlife habitat, but a few simple changes to how they are maintained could turn them into much better places for pollinators. A new uOttawa-led study found that reducing mowing and herbicide use along rural roadsides led to a 45% jump in pollinator numbers and a 23% increase in the number of species found there.

The discovery adds strong evidence that the outbreak that sickened thousands over the summer originated in the company’s fields or processing facility in northeastern Mexico.

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In the rolling highlands of Wanging’ombe district in Tanzania’s Njombe region, potato farming is more than a livelihood; it is a test of whether a new generation can turn small plots into profitable businesses. A new study published in Discover Agriculture by Semeni Ngozi of the University of Dar es Salaam examines why some young […]

In a development that could reshape how farmers protect cucurbit crops from one of their most persistent bacterial enemies, researchers in Himachal Pradesh, India, have turned an invasive weed into a weapon against plant disease. A team at the College of Horticulture and Forestry, part of Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, […]

The soils that feed one of southeastern Nigeria’s most densely populated farming regions are quietly sending a warning signal. A new field study of cassava-growing lands in Isialangwa North, Abia State, has produced the first systematic physical health check of the area’s agricultural soils, and the verdict is a split decision: the ground beneath farmers’ […]

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Insect herbivores destroy a staggering share of the world’s harvests every year, and the chemical arsenal deployed against them is steadily losing its edge. Pesticide resistance keeps evolving, environmental costs keep mounting, and regulators keep tightening the rules. Against that backdrop, a new review published in Plant Biosystems argues that one of the most promising […]

New technology from Texas A&M AgriLife Research could be a major step toward bringing disease-resistant peppers and tomatoes to growers' fields and lowering costs at grocery stores.

Broccoli grown under magenta solar panels absorbed sunlight more efficiently than plants grown out in the open, according to a study to be published Oct. 2 in Cell Reports Physical Science.

In the scorched orchards of Ahvaz, in Iran’s Khuzestan province, date palms endure some of the most punishing growing conditions on Earth. Summer temperatures routinely climb past levels that would wither most fruit crops, and growers have long accepted a hard bargain: the fruit that thrives in this furnace often pays a price in yield […]

The future of lab-grown steak may hinge on an unexpectedly humble ingredient: gelatin powder. In a new open-access study published in Food Science of Animal Resources, researchers at Kongju National University and the National Institute of Animal Science in South Korea systematically compared bio-inks made from beef, pork, and fish gelatin, testing how the source […]

Plant breeders in Punjab have added a new entry to the short list of old-world cotton varieties available to farmers in northern India. PBD 88, a high-yielding desi cotton variety of the species Gossypium arboreum, has been described in the Indian Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding by a team from Punjab Agricultural University. The […]

A short correspondence published in the Journal of Neuro-Oncology is making a pointed argument that could reshape how neuro-oncologists interpret a familiar group of brain tumors. Writing in the journal’s September 2026 issue, neurosurgeons Alexandre Roux, Marc Zanello and Johan Pallud of GHU-Paris Psychiatrie et Neurosciences, Hôpital Sainte Anne, contend that contrast enhancement on magnetic […]

In the highlands and lowlands of southern Ethiopia, water is often close at hand, yet the fields above it stay dry. A sweeping new analysis of more than 33,000 farming households and over 41,000 cultivated plots across ten zones of the former Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples’ Region has quantified just how large the gap […]

On a recent episode of the AgNet News Hour, Michael Jameson, director of sales at Morada Nut Company, returned for Part 2 of the conversation, focusing on how technology, changing ... Read More The post AI and Changing Consumer Habits Reshape California Walnut Marketing appeared first on AgNet West.

Artificial intelligence has quietly been reshaping everything from medical diagnostics to weather forecasting, and now it is turning its attention to one of humanity’s oldest scientific endeavors: plant breeding. In a study published in the Indian Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding, a team of Brazilian researchers reports that artificial neural networks can classify common […]

Aqueous leaf extract of Lupinus termis, the white lupin familiar to farmers and gardeners across the Mediterranean region, has emerged as a surprisingly potent chemical weapon against two widespread agricultural weeds. In a study published in Plant Biosystems, a research team led by Hamed M. El-Shora of Mansoura University and corresponding author Gharieb S. El-Sayyad […]

When fish farmers skip meals, what happens inside a fish’s intestine turns out to be far more consequential than a simple matter of hunger. A new study of the Chu’s croaker (Nibea coibor), a commercially valuable croaker raised along the coast of Zhanjiang in China’s Guangdong Province, shows that the timing and rhythm of feeding […]

Ghana produces more cocoa than almost any nation on Earth, yet the smallholder farmers who grow the beans are watching their soils quietly die beneath their feet. A new survey of 150 cocoa farmers across five districts has revealed a striking paradox: the raw materials for cheap, effective organic fertilisers lie rotting on virtually every […]

In the sprawling sugarcane fields of Ratchaburi Province, Thailand, a drone hovers forty meters above the crop, its multispectral cameras quietly reading the health of every five-by-five-meter patch of cane below. What happens next is a glimpse of farming’s future: an artificial intelligence system translates those aerial readings into a precise nitrogen prescription for each […]

Biochar has become one of the most celebrated tools in the regenerative agriculture movement, praised for its ability to lock carbon into the ground, improve soil structure, and feed the microscopic communities that sustain crops. But a new experiment from researchers at the Rodale Institute and the USDA Agricultural Research Service delivers a sobering message: […]

Will farmers want AI tools to help judge when to pick fruit, or is their own intuition enough?

China has planted more trees than any other nation on Earth, a greening campaign visible from orbit and celebrated as a flagship of nature-based climate action. But a new analysis of 361 afforestation sites across the country delivers an uncomfortable and fascinating twist: where those trees were planted matters enormously for the climate ledger. Converting […]

Agriculture drinks roughly seventy percent of the world’s freshwater, and every drop counts. As water scarcity tightens its grip on farming regions from California to the Mediterranean, precision irrigation has become one of the most consequential technologies of our time. The promise is seductive: bury a sensor in the soil, read its signal, and water […]

Salt is quietly strangling agriculture across the world’s drylands, and few crops feel the squeeze more than sorghum, a cereal that hundreds of millions of people rely on for food and fodder. Now a team of researchers from Pakistan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and the United States has reported that a humble soil amendment made from […]

Genetically modified organism (GMO) components were detected in 99.3 percent of U.S. soybean import cases tested over the past decade, trade data showed Friday, raising calls for Korea to diversify its soybean import sources. According to Korea Agro-Fisheries & Food Trade Corp. data submitted to Rep. Song Ok-joo of the Democratic Party of Korea, Korea imported 1.6 million tons of U.S. soybeans between 2017 and September 2026, accounting for 91.5 percent of its total soybean imports during the period. GMO components were detected in 399 of 402 U.S. soybean import cases, or 99.3 percent. Canadian soybeans were imported in 45 shipments totaling 29,469 tons, with GMO components detected in 57.8 percent of the cases. In contrast, no GMO components were detected in soybeans imported from China or Russia. Chinese soybeans totaled 112,124 tons in 18 shipments, accounting for 6.4 percent of total imports, while Russian soybeans totaled 7,870 tons across five shipments. The data came amid recent

Deep beneath the soil surface, an invisible chemical conversation decides whether a crop thrives or is strangled by one of agriculture’s most destructive parasites. At the heart of that conversation are strigolactones, a family of plant hormones derived from carotenoids that serve a double life: inside the plant they regulate architecture and development, while outside […]

Chemists in Thailand and Japan have unveiled a new kind of recyclable catalyst that could help solve one of the most stubborn problems in renewable energy: turning sticky, oxygen-rich bio-oil into something that behaves like the petroleum fuels our engines already run on. The team, led by researchers at Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi in […]

A rare and often fatal infection of the brain and spinal cord is drawing renewed attention from infectious disease specialists, thanks to a comprehensive review published in the Journal of Emergency and Disaster Medicine. The condition, known as neuromelioidosis, is caused when Burkholderia pseudomallei, a Gram-negative bacterium that lives in soil and stagnant water across […]

In the push to make agriculture less dependent on synthetic chemicals, few ideas have generated as much enthusiasm as microbial inoculants: living bacteria and fungi that are deliberately added to seeds or soil to boost crop growth, prime plant immunity, or fend off pathogens. Yet a persistent worry shadows this enthusiasm. When farmers release vast […]

In the smallholder farming communities of Southwest Nigeria, the difference between a household that is thriving and one that is quietly struggling often cannot be seen in a bank statement. It shows up in a corrugated roof, a mobile phone, a goat in the backyard, or the number of children a woman can keep in […]

Ethiopia ranks among the world’s leading producers of oilseeds, yet the smallholder farmers who grow sesame, soybeans, sunflowers and other oil crops have watched their yields stagnate far below what modern agronomy says is possible. Now, an ambitious longitudinal analysis drawing on nearly two decades of national survey data has delivered a finding that upends […]

Soil salinity and alkalinity are among the most punishing forces in agriculture, stunting crops across millions of hectares worldwide. But new research on wild soybean suggests that the secret to surviving these hostile soils may lie not only in the plant’s own genes, but in the invisible community of bacteria clustered around its roots. A […]

Aquaculture has quietly become the world’s fastest-growing food production sector, delivering a record 122.6 million tonnes of fish and other aquatic products in 2020 and supplying affordable protein to billions of people. Yet the industry’s rapid expansion has come under sustained criticism for its environmental footprint, from polluted effluent and nutrient leaching to the overuse […]

America’s appetite for organic food has long outpaced what its own farmers can supply. For decades, the gap between domestic organic production and consumer demand has widened to the point where billions of dollars flow overseas each year to pay for certified organic imports, even as U.S. producers hesitate to make the leap themselves. The […]

Deep beneath the fields of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East, seeds of the root-parasitic plant Phelipanche ramosa lie buried in the soil, waiting for a chemical whisper from a potential host. When they detect it, they germinate, attach to the roots of crops such as oilseed rape, tomato, and hemp, and drain their […]

Deep inside the tissues of maize, wheat, rye, and their grass relatives runs a chemical assembly line that has been quietly shaping agriculture for millennia. Its products, the benzoxazinoids, are a family of nitrogen- and oxygen-containing ring compounds that function as the primary chemical arsenal of many monocot crops against insects, fungi, bacteria, and nematodes. […]

Smartphone vineyard mapping is giving growers a new way to create detailed, vine-by-vine maps using nothing more than a smartphone. VineIQ says its technology allows growers to walk through a vineyard ... Read More The post Smartphone Technology Creates Vine-by-Vine Vineyard Maps appeared first on AgNet West.

Leaders of $100 million effort will use automated detection methods and computer models to monitor species’ trends

Staphylococcus aureus is frequently found in human and veterinary infections. It is named for the golden-yellow pigment it produces, which contributes to its virulence and protects it against oxidative stress. Its ability to withstand antibiotic treatment makes it a major clinical challenge.

Urban farming is often portrayed as raised wooden beds or community garden plots on overgrown vacant lots in cities around the country. The more prominent, but untold story is how urban farming provides access to land for beginning farmers or those without the means to purchase it, or how these farmers creatively manage limited resources, […] The post The Uncertain Future of Urban Agriculture at USDA appeared first on National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition.

Soils are warming quickly and at considerable depth across Alaska, with temperatures rising fastest in the state's permafrost region, a trend that could accelerate climate change and undermine the stability of roads, buildings and other infrastructure built on the continuously frozen ground.

A three-year surveillance program in Quzhou City, in western Zhejiang Province, China, has found that poultry-associated environments—particularly live poultry markets and farms—harbor far more avian influenza virus than the migratory bird habitats that have long dominated public concern about the disease. The study, conducted by researchers at the Quzhou Center for Disease Control and Prevention […]

With six 3D printers operating at its production facility, Revo Foods can now turn out a product every three seconds, says CEO David Petuzzi. The post Austrian alt meat startup Revo Foods targets profitability by Q3 2027 as 3D-printing scales up appeared first on AgFunderNews.

“We're getting great results, big reductions in chemical spraying and also quite good increases in yield as well," says Antobot VP Marc Jones. The post Antobot scales UV-C robotics push with 300 deployments targeted in 2027 appeared first on AgFunderNews.

Vegetable crops sit at the heart of global food security, supplying essential vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and dietary fiber to billions of people. Yet the pressures facing vegetable production have never been greater. Population growth, rising health awareness, and the intensifying effects of climate change are driving demand for varieties that yield more, resist disease, tolerate […]

Drone surveys have transformed the way scientists watch soil disappear. With a few hundred overlapping photographs and a technique called structure from motion, a small unmanned aircraft can reconstruct a field surface in three dimensions at millimetre to centimetre resolution, revealing rills, gullies and subtle surface lowering that would once have required weeks of laborious […]

People with depression who dramatically cut ultra-processed foods experienced notable improvements in their symptoms in a small preliminary study. Researchers suspect healthier eating may benefit the brain partly by reducing gut damage and chronic inflammation.

On small farms scattered across the Langkat Regency of North Sumatra, Indonesia, antibiotics are a routine part of raising cattle, goats and sheep. Yet a new study suggests that the people administering these powerful drugs often understand remarkably little about what they are using, how it works, or what dangers it may carry. A cross-sectional […]

A drone that decides, mid-flight, exactly where to spray herbicide and where to hold its nozzles has moved a step closer to the field. Researchers at the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture have built and tested an adaptive sprayer control system that mounts on an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), images the soybean canopy […]

Harvesting the contents of a bioreactor sounds deceptively simple: the culture is finished, the drug substance is sitting in the broth, and all that remains is to separate the cells from the liquid. In practice, this clarification step is one of the most stubborn bottlenecks in modern biomanufacturing. Chinese hamster ovary cells, the workhorses behind […]

For potato growers, the sight of corky, pitted lesions on freshly harvested tubers is a familiar and costly disappointment. Common scab, a soil-borne disease caused by filamentous bacteria in the genus Streptomyces, does not usually kill the plant, but it can render tubers unmarketable. In the United States, potatoes with more than ten percent of […]

High in the Western Himalayas, where villages cling to terraced slopes and livestock are the backbone of household survival, tribal communities have spent generations treating sick animals with remedies gathered from the surrounding forests. A new study published in Plant Biosystems by Niharika Sharma and Radha of Shoolini University has now put that knowledge under […]

Every extra 100 grams of ultra-processed food eaten daily was linked to higher risks of chronic disease and death, a large analysis found. Ready-to-eat meals and heat-and-serve snacks have become increasingly common in diets around the world over the past few decades. As people eat more of these heavily processed products, researchers have been trying [...]

A sweeping review published in Discover Soil argues that the future of global food security may rest less on the next bag of synthetic fertilizer and more on the trillions of microscopic organisms already living in farmers’ fields. Led by Mehedi Hasan Khan of the Bangladesh Rice Research Institute, the study synthesizes more than a […]

Will farmers want AI tools to help judge when to pick fruit, or is their own intuition enough?

In the quiet soil beneath the world’s croplands, an army of microscopic hunters has been waging war on insect pests for millions of years. Entomopathogenic nematodes, threadlike roundworms barely visible to the naked eye, seek out beetle grubs, caterpillars, and other soil-dwelling larvae, invade their bodies, and kill them with the help of symbiotic bacteria […]

Beneath every wheat field lies an invisible economy. Fungi decompose crop residues, shuttle nutrients to plant roots, suppress pathogens, and occasionally attack the very crops they share the soil with. A new long-term study from the Loess Plateau of China, published in the journal Plant and Soil, now offers some of the clearest evidence yet […]

Few crops punish forecasting errors quite like strawberries. The fruit is delicate, the season is short, and every punnet that ripens without a picker or a cold-chain slot waiting for it is money left rotting in the field. A new study published in Smart Agricultural Technology shows that daily strawberry yields on a working commercial […]

In the drought-prone highlands of Tigray in northern Ethiopia, a new study has delivered one of the most detailed pictures yet of how smallholder dairy farmers are faring, and the results reveal both a striking opportunity and a stubborn bottleneck. Researchers from Mekelle University surveyed 224 dairy producers across three distinct milk production systems, an […]

FBN will make the first features available to early test users now, with a broader rollout expected this fall. The post FBN and Google team up to give farm AI the context it’s been missing appeared first on AgFunderNews.

Deep in the frozen ruins of Whalers Bay on Deception Island, one of the most storied locations in maritime Antarctica, scientists have uncovered a thriving hidden community of fungi living inside the decaying remnants of a century-old whaling station. A new study published in the journal Blue Biotechnology reveals that wood, fabric, rope and soil […]

In the coal-rich heart of northern China, where mines, power plants, and cement kilns cluster within a few kilometers of one another, an enormous stream of industrial leftovers piles up every year: heaps of coal gangue, mountains of fly ash, and an endless supply of excavated soil from construction sites. A new study published in […]

Turkey is one of Europe’s agricultural powerhouses, ranking first in the continent’s agricultural economy and tenth globally in 2022, with the sector contributing 58.5 billion US dollars to national income and employing roughly 18 percent of the working population. Yet a new econometric study suggests that the country’s development model may be quietly working against […]

In the humid rainforest belt of Ondo State, Southwest Nigeria, the ground beneath a farmer’s feet tells a very different story depending on what grows above it. A new study of the Okitipupa and Irele local government areas has produced the first integrated statistical and map-based portrait of how five contrasting land uses—farmland, oil palm […]

Rwanda’s sugar bowl is leaking. The country produced roughly 130,000 metric tons of sugarcane in 2022, yet national demand for sugar sits between 160,000 and 180,000 metric tons a year, forcing imports to fill a gap of 30,000 to 50,000 metric tons. A new study of smallholder farmers along the Nyabarongo River suggests that a […]

The global livestock food industry stands at a crossroads. A sweeping review published in Food Science of Animal Resources by researchers at the Korea Food Research Institute argues that food technology, rather than any single breakthrough, will determine whether animal-derived foods can remain a cornerstone of human nutrition in a world of nearly ten billion […]

A sweeping 26-year analysis of India’s two most important commercial crops has revealed a striking divergence in what actually drives farm incomes, with seed technology emerging as the single most powerful lever for cotton growers while hired labour dominates sugarcane economics. The study, published in Discover Agriculture by economist Amit Mandal of Mankar College, The […]

Plant-based proteins have a stubborn problem: even when their nutrition is excellent, they often refuse to behave in a food factory. Lupin protein isolate, prized for its balanced amino acid profile and relatively low allergenicity compared with soy and pea proteins, is a case in point. It dissolves poorly, struggles to stabilize emulsions and foams, […]

On the salt-crusted farmland of Ningxia in northwest China, where soil pH climbs above 8.7 and evaporation relentlessly concentrates salts in the root zone, maize growers have long faced a frustrating paradox: the nitrogen fertilizer they pour onto their fields largely refuses to stay there. Conventional urea releases its nitrogen in a sudden early burst, […]

Rice is the staple food for billions of people, yet breeding varieties that perform reliably across wildly different landscapes remains one of agriculture’s stubborn challenges. A new multi-environment study published in the Indian Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding has taken on that challenge in one of the world’s most demanding settings: the hill ecologies […]

Bambara groundnut, a humble underground legume that has sustained communities across sub-Saharan Africa for centuries, is quietly emerging as one of the most promising weapons against food insecurity in a warming Sahel. Now, a field trial conducted in the Sudano-Sahelian zone of Burkina Faso has delivered a message that could reshape how smallholder farmers grow […]

When the ocean creeps inland and salt poisons farmland, most plants shrivel and die. Mangroves, however, stand rooted in seawater twice a day, flourishing where agriculture fails. A new systematic review published in Discover Plants has now pulled together the scattered evidence explaining how these remarkable trees chemically survive one of the harshest environments on […]

For decades, agricultural scientists have treated soil acidity and soil carbon as two separate problems demanding two separate solutions. A sweeping new synthesis published in Advanced Science now shows they are deeply, quantitatively intertwined — and that fixing one can quietly pay for the other. By analyzing 251 field trials from around the world, researchers […]

A pigment-producing bacterium pulled from pine forest soil in Erzurum, Turkey, is attracting attention for a striking ability: its carotenoid-rich extract kills human cancer cells in the laboratory while leaving healthy cells largely unharmed. The microbe, identified as Micrococcus terreus strain SK34, was one of fifty pigment-producing isolates screened from soils collected across the region, […]

Decades after industrial waste stops flowing, the damage it leaves behind can keep working quietly underground. A new study of floodplain soils at the Savannah River Site in the United States shows that legacy contamination from coal ash does not simply kill off soil microbes. Instead, it reshapes entire microbial communities, favoring hardy generalist bacteria […]

New research from the DTU National Food Institute and Aarhus University shows that microorganisms can be used to specifically alter the amino acid composition of plant-based foods, making them more nutritious and therefore healthier.

In the sun-scorched savannahs of northern Ghana, a humble legume is quietly holding together the region’s farming systems, and a new study suggests that the future of the crop depends less on laboratory breakthroughs than on listening to the farmers who grow it. Pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan), the world’s sixth most important pulse crop, thrives […]

Enhanced-efficiency nitrogen fertilizers, the high-tech products marketed as a way to squeeze more grain out of every kilogram of applied nitrogen, did not consistently outperform ordinary urea in grain corn fields across Atlantic Canada, according to a multi-year field study published in the Journal of Agriculture and Food Research. The research, conducted over two growing […]

A microscopic bacterium that lives inside the cells of some of the world’s most destructive rice pests may hold the key to controlling them. A new review published in the journal Crop Health by researchers at Nanjing Agricultural University brings together decades of evidence on how Wolbachia, an intracellular symbiont found in a large share […]

Farmers have long been told to fertilize for yield, but a new field study from Tamil Nadu, India, argues that the smartest fertilizer prescription is one that feeds the soil’s living machinery at the same time. Researchers at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University and partner institutions tested a soil-test-based, target-yield fertilizer system, adjusted with farmyard manure, […]

Few classes of industrial chemicals have earned a nickname as ominous as “forever chemicals,” yet the label is scientifically deserved. Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, are a vast family of synthetic compounds built around carbon-fluorine bonds so strong that they resist oxidation, reduction, hydrolysis and virtually every natural degradation pathway. A comprehensive new review […]

For more than half a century, agricultural laboratories around the world have relied on a single chemical recipe to decide how much potassium fertilizer a farmer should apply. A solution of neutral normal ammonium acetate is shaken with soil, the potassium it releases is measured with a flame photometer, and the number that emerges drives […]

Every year, an invisible army of fungi, insects, and weeds wages war on the fields that feed China, and every year an equally invisible defense system pushes back. For the first time, researchers have put a hard national number on just how much that defense is worth. A nationwide evaluation coordinated by China’s National Agricultural […]

Underwater archaeological investigations have been taking place in Lake Arendsee (Altmarkkreis Salzwedel) for several years. The discovery of Neolithic fish weirs, a high medieval barge (flat-bottomed cargo ship) and a late medieval dugout canoe attracted considerable attention.

Irrigation canals are the hidden circulatory system of global agriculture. Millions of kilometers of human-made channels carry water from rivers, lakes and reservoirs downhill to farmland, quietly sustaining harvests that feed billions of people. Yet for all their importance, most of these waterways are monitored poorly or not at all. Farmers and water managers in […]

Irrigation canals form a sort of circulatory system for global agriculture. Across the world, millions of kilometers of human-made canals carry water from lakes, rivers and reservoirs downhill to farmland. Canals are vitally important to human food production, yet many agricultural areas lack the means to monitor the ebb and flow of water through these waterways. This forces farmers and water managers to rely on scattered gauges, inspections and local reports to make decisions about water use.

A team of chemists and botanists in India has found that the leaves of a humble Himalayan weed can do the work of an industrial chemical plant. By mixing a simple aqueous extract of Rumex nepalensis, a perennial herb in the buckwheat family that grows abundantly across mountain slopes of Asia, with a zinc precursor, […]

A fermented liquid manure first described in Sanskrit agricultural texts more than a thousand years ago is now attracting serious scientific attention as a potential weapon against one of modern farming’s most stubborn problems: the slow degradation of soil health under decades of synthetic fertilizer use. In a comprehensive review published in Discover Soil, researchers […]

The fibrous, meat-like bite of a plant-based burger is not an accident of chemistry but the product of an elaborate structural hierarchy that has, until now, been largely invisible to food scientists. In a study published in Current Research in Food Science, a team of Dutch researchers led by Sam Kuijpers and Camilla Terenzi has […]

New application technology could help growers and retailers cut inputs, preserve chemistry effectiveness, and unlock future management flexibility. The post Precision Spraying Technology Could Expand Future Weed Control Options appeared first on CropLife.

Smart farms have become silent data factories. A single dairy cow now generates on the order of 65 kilobytes of sensor data every day, streaming from milking equipment, health monitors, and environmental devices, while a mid-scale crop farm with hundreds of soil moisture, temperature, and pest-monitoring nodes produces orders of magnitude more. As the global […]

Soil contaminated with toxic metals is one of the most stubborn environmental problems of our time. Lead, chromium, and uranium do not break down into harmless substances the way organic pollutants eventually do; they persist in the ground for decades, seeping into crops, groundwater, and ultimately the food chain. Traditional cleanup approaches, from digging out […]

Biodegradable films made from engineered honeybee silk could form the basis of a new generation of 'smart' wound dressings, according to CSIRO and Adelaide University researchers.

In the highlands of Papua New Guinea, crops have been killed by drought and frost. Severe frosts have destroyed food crops such as taro, sweet potatoes, bananas and sugarcane, leaving some local communities scrambling for food.

New research suggests that poultry litter-based soil amendments and weather conditions, particularly extreme weather events, may influence how long bacteria survive in agricultural soils used to grow sweet onions. The findings could help inform food safety risk management for produce growers.

A University of Kentucky forest entomologist is advancing a pest-control approach designed to target destructive forest beetles while minimizing effects on surrounding wildlife.

Seoul’s international garden festival is moving deeper into the city this fall, bringing 51 new gardens, outdoor performances and wellness programs to Maeheon Citizens' Forest in southern Seoul. The 2026 Seoul International Garden Festival, which began at Seoul Forest in May, will expand to Maeheon Citizens' Forest in Seocho District from Thursday through Oct. 27, while the Seoul Forest exhibition continues. The festival marks the 40th anniversary of Maeheon Citizens' Forest with gardens created by 367 local gardeners, along with competition entries and gardens sponsored by companies and institutions. The 51 gardens include 14 competition gardens — four by professional designers, five by local citizens and five by students — as well as 31 gardens involving local hobby gardeners and six company gardens. An opening ceremony will be held Thursday at 5 p.m. at the Forest Stage, with performances and awards for garden competition participants. Visitors can join docent-led tours three times

arXiv:2609.37072v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aerial seed broadcasting can reach remote restoration sites, but provides limited control over seed placement within the soil. This paper presents a geometry-assisted, tri-functional morphing robot that combines aerial access, ground locomotion, and controlled-depth seed embedding in a fly-drive-plant architecture. After landing, the platform reconfigures into a four-wheeled planting configuration: an electronically coupled dual-motor drive folds the rear arms outward to form ground wheels, while a descending front tray engages the propulsion motors with a drill gear train. Reusing the propulsion motors for drilling eliminates a dedicated drill drive. The planting sequence forms a hole, dispenses a seed, and allows the vehicle to reposition on the ground or return to its flight configuration. Ground mobility supports repeated planting without requiring a separate flight between adjacent sites. A companion controller issues