AgriTech Review

A 14-year study of 333 Chinese cities finds agricultural insurance significantly increases crop carbon absorption by shifting planting toward staple crops and raising cropping intensity.

A study of more than 123,000 online rice reviews links consumer concerns to corporate quality credit records and finds that transparency, certification and packaging technology are associated with higher review-based market activity.

A new review examines how Streptomyces bacteria could produce polyhydroxyalkanoate bioplastics, highlighting omics insights, bioprocess optimization and the barriers still blocking industrial scale-up.

An enhanced RT-DETR-ResNet18 framework raises detection accuracy for camouflaged soybean pests, reaching 77.4% mAP@0.5 across 12 pest categories.

A systematic review of 23 empirical studies finds that cluster-based farming in Ethiopia offers social, economic, ecological, institutional and political opportunities, but faces constraints ranging from farmer resistance and weak coordination to political instability.

Nigerian researchers optimised L-asparaginase production from two soil microbes, reaching 19,047 U/mL with a fungal isolate.

A study of raw cow milk from four Ethiopian dairy areas found that fat and other physicochemical quality indicators fell as milk moved from farms to consumers.

Researchers have formally described two novel actinobacterial species, one from a German drinking water reservoir and one from Tunisian soil, both rich in biosynthetic gene clusters and one showing broad antimicrobial activity.

A new comprehensive review argues that food additives remain essential for safety and shelf life while chronic exposure to certain synthetic agents raises unresolved health concerns.

Invasive alien brambles have been spreading across South Africa since the early 1900s, having come from North America and Europe. All brambles fall within the genus Rubus. Their common names in South Africa are braam (Afrikaans), ijingijolo (isiZulu) and monoko-metsi (seSotho).

A bibliometric review of palmyra palm sap research finds Indonesia, Thailand and India leading a small literature spanning fermentation, preservation, bioethanol, food safety and experimental solar materials.

A German study of 41 Holstein calves found that with standardized colostrum feeding and near ad libitum milk allowance, artificially reared calves matched dam-reared calves in growth, immunity transfer, and health.

Whole-genome sequencing of 333 Campylobacter jejuni isolates shows that episodic surges of fluoroquinolone resistance in Finnish broilers came from regionally clustered clonal spread, not vertical transmission.

A new global assessment identifies crushed basalt spread on acidic croplands as the most practical form of enhanced weathering, with a theoretical capacity of about 18.84 gigatonnes of CO2.

Climate change and shifts in land use are affecting habitats and, consequently, plant diversity. To better understand the consequences of these developments, long-term and comprehensive data are essential. The "Floristic Mapping of Baden-Württemberg," coordinated by the Stuttgart State Museum of Natural History, provides a foundation for this. The data collected over five decades as part of this citizen science project document significant changes in the flora of southwestern Germany, drawing on more than 2.5 million plant observations. They also provide insights into changes in plant diversity in Germany and Central Europe.

Syngenta was ranked 6th among science-driven companies globally. The Group has been recognized as among the top 10 since 2019. The post Syngenta Named Agriculture’s Leading Employer by Science Magazine for 10th Successive Year appeared first on CropLife.

A new review in Frontiers in Physiology maps how diet, gut microbes and mucosal immunity interact in livestock, while warning that gut changes alone do not prove production or product-quality benefits.

Smallholder rice farmers in Tanzania's Kilombero valley floodplain perceive widespread soil health deterioration linked to commercial, agrochemical-intensive farming, according to a mixed-methods study.

The tech utilizes tiny bacterial extracellular vesicles, which have a natural affinity for intestinal cells and can be loaded with bioactives. The post BioClé tackles bioactives’ bioavailability challenge with novel delivery tech appeared first on AgFunderNews.

Researchers used environmental DNA metabarcoding in the Rioni River to detect 34 fish taxa, identifying three invasive alien species and a new country record for the ninespine stickleback.

A study of 200 plots in northeast Greenland found that soil eDNA and visual vegetation surveys largely agreed on plant genera, environmental responses and plant-microbe associations.

A flower strip is established along the edge of a field. A wetland is restored. More seminatural habitats are created. The expectation is simple: give nature more space, and biodiversity will increase. But reality is often not so simple.

As winter approaches, many of us start clearing leaves and tidying up our gardens. But these jobs can remove vital winter habitats for wildlife, particularly with increasingly volatile weather conditions.

In experimental Brassica rapa populations, pollen competition for ovules was the main arena of sexual selection, while reduced pollinator abundance increased selection on mate acquisition.

A survey of 385 Thai livestock farmers found that only 20 percent followed comprehensive brucellosis prevention practices despite 65.5 percent showing satisfactory knowledge, with farm certification strongly linked to better behavior.

A new study led by Kumar Venkitanarayanan, dean of the College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources (CAHNR), has shown that plant-based antimicrobials are a promising path toward controlling antibiotic resistance in foodborne pathogens. The research is published in the journal Frontiers in Veterinary Science.

Lab-grown protein that mimics the color, taste and texture of meat. Egg white substitutes used for baked goods. Food colorants that replace beta-carotene extracted from carrots. Those are some of the products created with precision fermentation, an emerging technology that can develop tailored food ingredients in the laboratory. If adapted to large-scale production, it can potentially contribute to reducing global food insecurity by creating affordable, sustainable products supplementing those delivered by traditional agriculture.

A study of Adiantum ferns on China's Karst and Danxia landforms finds a two-phase diversification driven first by bedrock-mediated soil differentiation and later by microclimate and leaf magnesium adaptation.

The defense contractor aims to fully bring back laptop manufacturing on U.S. shores, with its first BlueChip laptop prototypes having 90% procurement cost coming from suppliers in the U.S. and other allied countries.

A paired soil and crop survey in Nagarkanda, Bangladesh, found arsenic above guideline limits in all fifteen sampled fields and identified cadmium as the leading ecological risk.

Global efforts to preserve habitat and the planet's most endangered species urgently need to be stepped up, according to a new report from Map of Life, the flagship initiative of the Yale Center for Biodiversity and Global Change.

A systematic review of 77 studies synthesizes how extreme drought, flooding and rapid drying-rewetting cycles disrupt soil microbial biomass, enzyme kinetics and carbon cycling, and evaluates how biochar and cover cropping may buffer these effects.

A new policy brief maps how Europe's farms could serve older adults, urging systematic collaboration between public health and agriculture.

Researchers in Bavaria released two benchmark datasets of dusty tractor-camera images and found that the best dust removal methods are not the ones that best improve person detection.

A modelling study finds that replacing livestock products with plant-based meat alternatives could shrink agricultural land expansion and greenhouse gas emissions, while increasing the risk of micronutrient inadequacy.

A two-season field trial in Goiás, Brazil, found that residues from Quênia guinea grass, whether grown alone or intercropped with maize, raised soil enzyme activity, organic carbon, and succeeding soybean yields of up to 5,158 kilograms per hectare compared with bare-soil cultivation.

A new review details how stress-tolerant plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria can help rice withstand drought, salinity, flooding, and heavy metals while cutting methane emissions from paddy fields.

A laboratory comparison shows that copper-needle and carbon-fibre brush emitters produce different corona currents, deposition patterns and fog-collection rates, with no single spacing or maximum-current condition proving universally optimal.

The first survey of soil bacteria and fungi on Mount Toubkal shows fungal richness declining with elevation while bacterial diversity stays stable.

Utah officials kept a bird flu outbreak at a private mink farm under tighter restrictions than other livestock cases, prompting concerns over transparency, surveillance and mutation risks.

A landscape genetics study finds agriculture is the primary barrier to gene flow among sloth bears in India's fragmented Central Terai.

A systematic review of IoT and AI-enabled microclimate regulation in poultry farming demonstrates that predictive climate management can achieve thermal stability of ±0.5 °C, leading to improved welfare and production efficiency.

A Chinese field study finds that rotating sorghum with potato, common vetch, or green pea shoots improves soil nutrients, restructures microbial communities, and enriches beneficial microbial functions compared with continuous sorghum cropping.

A field experiment in Inner Mongolia's Horqin Sandy Land shows that continuous cropping of the medicinal herb Atractylodes chinensis lowers yield and bioactive compound content while degrading soil chemistry and disrupting rhizosphere microbial communities.

A case report describes a 58-year-old cattle farmer whose seronegative inflammatory arthritis, sicca symptoms and suspected cervical spondylitis were attributed to probable systemic brucellosis, while microbiological confirmation and long-term outcomes remained uncertain.

Whole-genome sequencing traced livestock-associated MRSA ST398 from German pig farms through slaughter into fermented ready-to-eat sausage, where it survived the full seven-day shelf life.

A new perspective in Discover Plants proposes that nitrogen limitation can decouple leaf-level photosynthetic performance from canopy resource capture, using potato as an illustrative case.

A study in Shandong Province, China, used quantile regression forests to map soil salinity across five depth intervals down to 125 cm, finding accuracy declines with depth and that spectral drivers give way to hydro-topographic and climatic controls.

Climate change is amplifying extreme weather conditions across southern Africa. Dry seasons are getting hotter and drier, while rains are becoming heavier and more concentrated. This means greater swings between production surplus and scarcity for rural communities that make their living from the land.

Researchers at HZI and HIPS activated silent bacterial genes to discover myxoglucamides, unusual natural products that bind the cancer-associated enzyme AKR1C3.

A comparative study of sugar beet and maize seedling imagery found that a custom CNN outperformed classical classifiers, while U-Net localized weeds with a reported mean IoU of 87.6%.

An experimental study found that sealing stabilized construction soil before aeration can improve strength without adding neutralization capacity.

A living systematic review of seven trials found that free healthy-food programs may reduce food insecurity among people with prediabetes or type 2 diabetes, while their effect on HbA1c was small and not statistically significant.

A controlled soil-based experiment found that a field-informed ferulic–veratric acid mixture promoted biomass accumulation in Schima superba seedlings at low exposure, while higher exposure reduced growth, photosynthetic performance, and leaf phosphorus concentration.

A study of the Lillgrund offshore wind farm shows that the best way to represent rotor-plane wind fields for machine-learning surrogates depends on whether the target is electrical power or fatigue loads.

A new study with unprecedented access to Atlantic salmon farms in British Columbia raises urgent questions about the federal government's approach to regulating salmon farms and highlights disease risk to wild salmon populations.

A new review outlines how glycine-based piezoelectric nanogenerators harvest electricity from body motion while being explored for supporting the regeneration of nerves, muscles, skin, and bone.

As urbanization spreads worldwide, the loss and fragmentation of habitats are driving the global decline in biodiversity. At the same time, urban green spaces like parks, meadows and forests have the potential to contribute significantly to biodiversity conservation at the local and regional levels.

Infants whose mothers smoked cannabis while breastfeeding showed the presence of volatile organic compounds in their urine, a study shows.

Melania Trump appeared to turn away as Donald Trump leaned in to kiss her at a White House ceremony, prompting body-language analysis and renewed scrutiny of their relationship.

Urban flooding is becoming a growing concern in densely developed neighborhoods, where paved surfaces limit infiltration and intense rainfall can overwhelm drainage systems. Low impact development measures, such as rain barrels (RBs) and rain gardens (RGs), help manage stormwater close to where it falls. RBs collect rooftop runoff for later nonpotable use, while RGs use vegetated depressions and soil to encourage infiltration.

Storm Boelo forced Bates Farm in Cheshire to cancel pumpkin picking, with owners estimating losses of £50,000 after damage, refunds, lost sales and disruption to vendors.

A two-year field experiment in southeastern Türkiye found that supplemental irrigation increased chickpea grain yield, particularly when flowering and grain filling were included, although spring sowing generally achieved better water productivity.

The data viewer will provide near-real-time, county-level data sets on the use of cover crops and conservation tillage practices to strengthen decision-making for U.S. agriculture. The post Viridis View to Launch at Sustainable Ag Summit to Track Progress for Regenerative Agriculture appeared first on CropLife.

A survey of 300 homestead agroforests across three Ethiopian districts recorded 45 woody species in 27 families, over 71 percent of them indigenous, revealing these managed farm gardens as important in-situ reservoirs of native tree diversity despite heavy cash-crop dominance.

A single-case report from Beirut describes six days of continuous antegrade liposomal amphotericin B irrigation through a nephrostomy tube that softened a refractory Candida lusitaniae renal fungal bezoar, allowing complete endoscopic removal without complications.

Researchers built iron–tea polyphenol coatings on biodegradable electrospun membranes and found that a four-layer assembly cut sweet cherry decay to 1.85 percent over seven days, far outperforming commercial plastic wrap.

A 90-day incubation study found that pelletized straw reduced nitrous oxide emissions by up to 45.7% while changing ammonia-oxidizing bacterial communities in nitrogen-fertilized saline-alkali soil.

Bill Clinton has criticised Donald Trump's Rose Garden renovation, comparing it to the entrance of Liberace's bathroom during a Florida campaign event for David Jolly.

Salicylic acid has long been celebrated as the master switch of plant immunity, a hormone that lets crops detect pathogens and mount a broad-spectrum defense known as systemic acquired resistance. In laboratory experiments, spraying plants with this simple phenolic compound

A glasshouse experiment with four tropical legume species in southwestern China reveals that conspecific neighbors drive root investment under drought while heterospecific neighbors promote aboveground growth, with the balance between competition and facilitation shifting across soil moisture gradients.

A field experiment in Pernambuco, Brazil, found that pulse subsurface drip fertigation combined with a nitrogen rate of about 189 kilograms per hectare maximized net photosynthesis in sugarcane, while nitrogen rates above roughly 168 kilograms per hectare reduced carboxylation and water use efficiency.

A new review finds that natural farming practices such as Jeevamrit, Beejamrit and mulching can improve soil organic carbon, microbial activity and water-related properties, but warns that most benefits are confounded with organic manures and that direct evidence of climate resilience remains limited.

A survey of 28 alpine forest sites on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau found opposite nonlinear changes in soil nitrogen and phosphorus across elevations from 769 to 3,767 metres.

A new review in Discover Plants finds that seed priming reliably improves germination and early seedling vigor under drought, salinity and temperature stress, but says wider farm adoption depends on standardized protocols, field-scale validation and better understanding of primed seed storage.

A simulation-based study reports that a federated Edge-AI framework combining smart neck collars and a hybrid GBoost-LSTM model predicted dairy cattle disease with 95.12 percent accuracy while keeping raw sensor data on participating farms.

Long non-coding RNAs are emerging as a vast regulatory layer controlling growth, fertility, disease resistance and meat quality in livestock, with new CRISPR-Cas13 tools poised to convert transcriptomic catalogues into actionable breeding markers.

Anu, an indoor farming startup founded by Purdue alumni, has received a $500,000 NSF Phase IIB SBIR grant to scale manufacturing of its compostable Plug-and-Grow Seed Pods for automated, low-labor Food is Medicine cultivation.

A comprehensive review maps how hydrogen-rich water is produced, why its dissolved hydrogen is so hard to keep, and what the evidence shows across food preservation, agriculture, animal health and human trials.

A comprehensive review details how strictly lytic bacteriophages can target intestinal pathogens in livestock and poultry while preserving beneficial microbiota, but field efficacy remains constrained by delivery, resistance, and immune clearance.

In 1987, biologists captured the last free-flying condor to transfer it to captivity, and the largest flying North American bird species was officially declared extinct in the wild. Today, after decades of coordinated efforts and millions of dollars spent on captive breeding and reintroduction efforts, more than 300 condors have been restored to their natural environment.

A field experiment found that combining the bacterium Azospirillum brasilense with humic acid improved wheat growth, physiology and drought tolerance when water was withheld at the tillering stage.

Pectin extracted from cocoa husk waste has been cast into biodegradable films that shield ultraviolet light, scavenge free radicals, disintegrate rapidly in soil, and can be regenerated by dissolution and recasting, according to a new study.

A resource assessment of Southern Ghour, Jordan's lowest-elevation agricultural district, estimates that farm residues, animal manure, and municipal waste could yield 38.93 GWh of electricity per year, while decentralized wastewater treatment could recover up to 3.27 million cubic meters of treated irrigation water annually.

The bacterium Acinetobacter radioresistens Ke–5 enhanced elemental sulphur oxidation by 3.7 to 29.4 per cent in sodic soils and, combined with sulphur, increased rice and wheat yields by 4.8 to 19.3 per cent in lysimeter trials.

California agriculture depends on healthy soil, effective nutrient management and responsible water use. For Allie Cushnyr, senior agronomist for Holloway, helping growers improve soil health is about more than producing ... Read More The post Holloway Agronomist Highlights Soil Health and Gypsum Benefits appeared first on AgNet West.

GMO Internet Group has asked Japan’s government to use its new active cyber defence powers against hackers who breached one of its services. The company made the request on Saturday, after the attackers demanded money. In a stock exchange filing on Saturday, GMO said it wants state agencies to trace, block, and neutralise the attackers’ infrastructure. It […] This story continues at The Next Web

A spokesperson said it was removing inaccurate AI images and pausing the rollout of the tool.

A laboratory study of coastal cement soil reports that 6 percent bamboo biochar raised unconfined compressive strength by up to 53 percent at 28 days, while carbonation curing at 40 percent CO2 produced the best cyclic performance and increased relative CO2 uptake by roughly 27 to 39 percent.

Amplicon surveys across four dominant plant communities around Qinghai Lake reveal that Leymus secalinus soils harbor the richest primer-defined nosZ communities, that diversity and composition track partly different vegetation–soil variables, and that phylogeny-based null models point to variable selection as the dominant assembly process.

A study published in Food Hydrocolloids shows potato protein can form a strong network with fava bean protein during high-moisture extrusion, offering a gluten-free route to structured plant-based meat, though the blend tastes more bitter and astringent than gluten-containing versions.

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A five-year repeat survey of Irish tillage farmers finds steady gains in GPS guidance, auto-steer, and yield monitoring, while variable-rate and imagery-based decision tools lag behind.

An experimental study of Culex pipiens larvae reared at five food levels finds that nutritional stress becomes detectable around 25% of ad libitum feeding, with females more sensitive than males and developmental time and wing size the most sensitive stress indicators.

A comprehensive review finds that tannins and other phytogenic bioactives can shift nitrogen excretion in ruminants toward less harmful routes, but verified whole-farm emission reductions remain rare.

A one-season field trial in Guagusashekudad District found that combining 150–300 kg per hectare of NPSB-Urea with 15 tonnes per hectare of farmyard manure produced wheat yields of 5.40–5.92 tonnes per hectare and the highest net benefit.

Vattenfall has tested a thermal camera system using artificial intelligence (AI) to monitor bird behaviour at its Hollandse Kust Zuid offshore...

Potatoes could hold the key to making better gluten-free plant-based meat, according to a new study.

The receiver has also received a draft asset purchase agreement from key creditor Gray Construction, which filed a lawsuit last year alleging it was owed $36.4m for design and construction work at the facility, The post Unnamed bidder submits letter of intent to acquire Believer Meats’ US cultivated meat site appeared first on AgFunderNews.

In Slovenian retention-basin soils, switching from z-score standardisation to a centred log-ratio transformation before principal component analysis of portable X-ray fluorescence data substantially changed the variance structure, loading patterns and group-test outcomes, revealing a carbonate-phosphate versus silicate gradient only partly aligned with metal enrichment.