AgriTech Review

Researchers at Oregon State University say a product used to control pest slugs on farms in multiple countries is harmful to an iconic West Coast slug and that more research is needed before the product is approved for use in the United States. The work is published in the journal PLOS One.

A new study has identified a previously unknown mechanism by which plants sense insect attack and activate defense responses.

A comparative study of two Italian dairy farms found that automated calf feeding systems were associated with higher average daily gain and lower mortality rates than traditional manual bucket feeding.

A study evaluating the Agrosense v2 platform reveals that subtle adversarial image perturbations severely degrade deep-learning vision models and corrupt downstream agricultural yield and mapping decisions.

Researchers have identified a Danish topsoil bacterium, Arthrobacter sp. α-11c, that fully internalizes and degrades biopesticidal pentacyclic triterpenoid saponins within six hours.

Fluctuating resource supplies can help some highly invasive plants outcompete native species. But research on how nutrient fluctuations affect plant invasion has largely relied on greenhouse or simplified experiments, leaving it unclear whether the same mechanisms operate under natural conditions.

Agricultural engineers designed MEL-YOLO, a deep learning keypoint detection model that accurately localizes weed growth points at high inference speeds to guide laser weeding in sugarcane fields.

Human culture evolves similarly to living organisms, but unlike biology, human creativity can accumulate improvements at an incredible speed. But how exactly does the process of transmitting and modifying ideas between people work?

Controlled greenhouse trials reveal that fodder radishes and marigolds suppress quarantine root-knot nematodes while simultaneously multiplying northern root-knot nematodes.

A field experiment in India showed that seed priming with intermediate concentrations of the synthetic strigolactone analog (-)-epi-GR24 significantly enhanced plant growth, seed yield, and rhizosphere biological properties in Vigna mungo.

From reclaimed bricks to permeable pavers, these practical hardscaping options can reduce waste, conserve resources, and add character to your landscape

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), today announced that domestic producers and importers of Christmas trees voted to continue the Real Christmas Tree Board’s research and promotion program. In the referendum held Oct. 1-16, 2026, 52.01% of Christmas tree domestic producers and importers voted in favor of continuing the […] The post Christmas Tree Industry Votes to Continue Research and Promotion Program appeared first on Morning Ag Clips.

EAST GRAND FORKS, Minn. — Fresh Solutions Network® recognizes NoKota Packers® Inc., a third-generation potato packer and shipper in Buxton, North Dakota, as its 2026 Fall Farmer Focus, highlighting the company’s investments in technology, product quality, and dependable red and yellow potato supply. Founded in 1979, NoKota has built its reputation on strong grower relationships, […] The post NoKota Packers Invests In Technology To Strengthen Potato Quality And Supply appeared first on Morning Ag Clips.

An Australian native plant traditionally used by Indigenous communities for food and medicine could help scientists develop stronger, more flexible biodegradable film. UNSW researchers have discovered that adding extracts from pigface, Carpobrotus glaucescens, a hardy coastal succulent, to seaweed-based films can significantly improve their strength and flexibility.

A two-stage hybrid quantum-classical neural network automatically evolved from Sentinel-2 satellite time series matched classical regression baselines and improved pre-harvest crop yield detection sensitivity to 82 percent using only 289 trainable parameters.

A rotational mating scheme called mRMC accelerates the pyramiding and fixation of multiple gene-edited alleles in simulated animal populations while curbing inbreeding and protecting genetic diversity.

Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientists have achieved early success using electron beam, or eBeam, technology for the sterile insect technique, or SIT, against New World screwworm flies.

A new study finds that autonomous farming robots could reduce agricultural costs and emissions, with input efficiency driving the greatest potential benefits.

Adopting improved poultry production systems significantly increases household disease-related expenditures compared to traditional operations, according to an economic evaluation of 1,005 chicken-producing households in Tigray, Ethiopia.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell reviews Hawking: His Life and Work by Graham Farmelo The post Jocelyn Bell Burnell on Graham Farmelo’s new biography of Stephen Hawking appeared first on Physics World.

Warning after research shows AI agents can hack into a wind farm, access engineering data and shut down electricity supplies

A proposed USDA rule could remove SNAP benefits from about 6.3 million people, including children, by limiting broad-based categorical eligibility and tightening income-based access.

A study of six sub-Saharan African nations found fertilizer price spikes persisted locally long after global prices dropped, driven by currency depreciation, supply chain concentration, and disruptive policy interventions.

A mixed-methods study at a Swedish farm-based daycare center found that everyday interactions with companion, farm, and wild animals supported emotional wellbeing, social engagement, and personal identity among older adults with dementia.

Long-term legume cover cropping enhanced soil carbon sequestration in high-altitude Tibetan cherry orchards through species-specific accumulation of particulate and mineral-associated carbon fractions.

Published in the Annals of Microbiology, the study provides rare long-term evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa, showing that soil fungal diversity and community structure vary according to farming system type, input intensity, crop development stage, and specific site conditions.

One expert says that it still depends on the perfect confluence of cheap power, favorable regulation, and reliable connectivity.

A cross-sectional investigation in Maya City, Ethiopia, revealed an overall bovine mastitis prevalence of 38.8 percent alongside widespread Escherichia coli resistance to conventional penicillins.

An endogenous switching regression analysis of 369 smallholder households reveals that soybean contract farming significantly enhances overall livelihood scores and household food consumption.

A commentary in Globalization and Health outlines policy and governance pathways to counter corporate power, sovereign debt constraints, and the global expansion of ultra-processed foods.

Texas Democrats have prefiled 2027 bills to legalise recreational marijuana, allow limited home cultivation, establish regulated sales and expand medical cannabis access for menstrual pain conditions.

A chronosequence study across coastal saline-alkali farmland reveals that long-term reclamation reduces soil salinity, alters multi-kingdom microbial communities, and corresponds to marked gains in wheat yield.

Researchers developed a coal-fly-ash-supported alkaline catalyst that yielded palm-oil biodiesel with 96.54 percent fatty acid methyl ester content and improved fuel properties.

Researchers established four forest inventory plots near Yacuiba, Bolivia, documenting 284 trees and soil organic carbon to improve biomass estimates in the Gran Chaco dry forest.

Civil engineering researchers successfully applied Scheffe's design of experiments to optimize calcium carbide residue and palm oil fuel residue mixtures for stabilizing expansive black cotton soil.

A study of 495 dairy households in Bangladesh finds that market institutions and transport infrastructure significantly influence food safety adoption, while formal extension services have limited impact.

A newly published open-access environmental dataset details soil physicochemical properties, vegetation community structure, and topographic features across reclaimed grassland, shrubland, and adjacent native forest in northern Spain.

A study of 385 farm households in Ethiopia's West Gojjam Zone found that 55.8 percent adopted the complete improved wheat technology package, with credit access and cooperative membership significantly increasing adoption odds.

A cross-sectional study of 646 livestock handlers in Haryana revealed widespread raw milk consumption and substantial gaps in bovine tuberculosis awareness and animal isolation practices.

Nanopore long-read metagenomics of heavy-metal-contaminated soils demonstrates that antibiotic- and metal-resistance genes are rarely physically linked on the same DNA fragments.

Olive Garden Veterans Day deal explained. Learn what the restaurant offered, what made Americans look it up, and how the UK marks the same date.

A study of six land-use types in the Huixian karst wetland shows reclamation elevates the proportion of inorganic sulfur while reducing overall sulfur pools, shifting microbial abundance, and suppressing soil enzyme activities.

A review in Agricultural Products Processing and Storage details how stable isotope techniques clarify the mechanisms by which organic fertilizers reduce nitrate accumulation in various vegetable types compared to conventional chemical fertilizers.

A comparative report of two farm-related open globe injuries illustrates how soil contamination can trigger fulminant Bacillus cereus endophthalmitis, resulting in outcomes ranging from globe salvage with vision loss to surgical evisceration.

A laboratory investigation reveals that pairing four percent cement with talcum powder reduces expansive clay swelling pressure by up to 57.3 percent while enhancing compressive strength and post-peak ductility.

A three-round Delphi study involving 75 Indian agricultural experts validated 24 strategies across five domains to guide the development and monitoring of digital agro-advisory services.

ARLINGTON, Va.  – Feed industry professionals gathered last week in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, for the American Feed Industry Association’s (AFIA) annual Equipment Manufacturers Conference (EMC), held Nov. 4-6. Hosted by AFIA’s Equipment Manufacturers Committee, this year’s conference embraced the theme, “Operational Intelligence: AI’s Role in Efficiency, Growth and Security,” with sessions exploring how artificial intelligence (AI) […] The post Feed Industry Professionals Explore AI's Role in Efficiency, Growth and Security appeared first on Morning Ag Clips.

LEICESTER, United Kingdom — A large Swiss citizen-science project has used a surprisingly simple field test to show how land use affects the biological activity of soil. By burying cotton underwear and checking how much remained after two months, researchers created an accessible way to compare the life in different soils. A field test with […] The post What Buried Underpants Reveal About Soil Health on Farms appeared first on Morning Ag Clips.

A study of 329 smallholder households in northwest Ethiopia found that participating in oilseed and pulse contract farming led to modest, statistically significant improvements in dietary diversity and food consumption.

A genetic-epidemiological study shows that susceptibility, infectivity, and mortality in striped catfish infected with Edwardsiella ictaluri possess significant heritable variation that can improve population-level disease resilience.

A study published in AI in Civil Engineering demonstrates that ensemble AI models, specifically Gradient Boosting with Decision Trees, can accurately predict the permeability of soil amended with waste foundry sand.

A comprehensive review published in Bioresources and Bioprocessing examines the technical and economic barriers preventing microalgae from becoming a scalable source of high-quality protein.

Sweet Grass County High School (SGCHS) will soon be adding a new building to its agriculture department, as community members and school staff have begun fundraising efforts for a new… Source

A study of 106 Chinese cities reveals that the Green Agriculture Comprehensive Pilot policy reduced chemical fertilizer application density by 9.9 percent through technological innovation, scaled operations, and specialized agricultural services.

A choice experiment with 1,531 western Kenyan smallholders reveals that farmers prioritize soil-testing services and subsidized fertilizer over rural infrastructure when allocating agricultural budgets.

Untargeted and targeted metabolomics demonstrated metabolic equivalence between genetically modified maize lines and their parental varieties while identifying nine background-associated lipid and phenolic biomarkers that distinguish them from commercial cultivars.

In arid regions, the microbes that power threatened dryland soil ecosystems called biological soil crusts stay dormant over long periods, only "awakening" when they sense moisture from infrequent rainfall. Now, a team led by researchers at Penn State—driven by projections that those biocrusts will decline by as much as 40% in the next 45 years—found that when a dryland soil does get wet, most of the microbes in the biocrust stay inactive. It's a discovery that will inform ongoing efforts to conserve and restore biocrusts, according to the researchers.

A qualitative interview study reveals how Finnish livestock producers envision potential future roles spanning cell banking, biotech farming, and input supply within emerging cellular agriculture systems.

A long-term satellite analysis across Argentina reveals that natural vegetation demonstrates greater ecological resistance to meteorological droughts than simplified anthropogenic crops and pastures.

A tiny biodegradable bubble can move away from a chemical on its own, without a motor. Living cells need complex molecular machinery to do this. This discovery by researchers led by chemist Daniela Wilson at Radboud University, together with colleagues at Durham University, is a step toward artificial cells with lifelike behavior and could, in the long term, provide an interesting approach for self-steering particles in targeted drug delivery.

A transect study across 48 Ethiopian sorghum field soils revealed that soil fungal diversity and specific nutrient concentrations correlate with Striga hermonthica seedbank and infestation levels.

A review highlights how sauce-flavor Baijiu distillers' grains provide nutritional value and functional compounds to support sustainable livestock feeding.

Surgeons successfully treated a rare presentation of emphysematous cystitis and intravesical Candida tropicalis fungus balls in a diabetic patient using transurethral cystoscopic irrigation.

A greenhouse pot study demonstrates that moderate nickel supplementation enhances soil urease activity and maize nitrogen uptake in Egyptian calcareous soil, whereas higher concentrations trigger toxicity.

A new study by researchers at the Indo-French Cell for Water Sciences (IFCWS), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), introduces a new framework for water budgeting in agricultural regions that includes farmers' social categories that are usually neglected. The work is published in the Journal of Hydrology.

Primary survey data from Sichuan Province demonstrate that agricultural socialized services provided by new rural collective economic organizations significantly increase smallholder farm household income, primarily driven by in-production support, organizational coordination, and land quality improvements.

A three-year field manipulation on the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau reveals that alpine desert microbiomes maintain soil nutrient-cycling potential under warming through abundance-based compensation and network reorganization rather than taxonomic diversity alone.

GÖTTINGEN, Germany — Cultivating crops – such as wheat, barley and rye – alongside rows of trees is a system of agroforestry that is known as “alley-cropping”. It serves many functions: in addition to enhancing ecosystems and biodiversity, it can also counteract the negative effects of growing crops in treeless open land. The advantages of […] The post Smart Use of Trees and Crops Brings Best Yield appeared first on Morning Ag Clips.

ATLANTA — One year after CareSource provided funding to the Georgia Foundation for Agriculture (GFA), the partnership is building a statewide network of trained community members equipped to support Georgia farmers and rural communities through practical, peer-based mental health resources. CareSource’s investment has enabled GFA to bring COMET (Changing Our Mental and Emotional Trajectory) training […] The post CareSource Investment Expands Farmer Mental Health Resources Across Georgia appeared first on Morning Ag Clips.

Megyn Kelly challenged Dave Chappelle to repeat jokes about Charlie Kirk's killing directly to her after recordings from the comedian's Madison Square Garden performances drew criticism.

Field treatment using agricultural drones and their maintenance is a new line of business for Supercam launched by the company in 2026, the spokesperson said

Researchers have developed an improved RRT-APF algorithm that dramatically reduces path planning time and sampling nodes for robotic manipulators harvesting tomatoes in dense canopies.

3,500 Stingray AI laser robots deployed around salmon pens along the Norwegian coast 24/7 protect over 112 million fish from sea lice.

A cross-sectional study in northwest Ethiopia reveals widespread unsafe pesticide handling and minimal risk awareness among smallholder farmers.

A critical review finds that while microalgae-based living hydrogels offer a multifunctional platform for soil remediation, translating these engineered materials beyond controlled settings requires resolving core mechanisms and conducting long-term field validation.

A 3,000-kilometer soil survey encircling the Tarim Basin reveals that escalating salinity filters bacterial diversity while a resilient core microbiota persists across extreme arid soils.

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Judges have announced the winning photographs from the 2026 joint BMC Ecology and Evolution and BMC Zoology image competition, celebrating field research and conservation biology worldwide.

arXiv:2611.13933v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Farm security in the UK rests on thinner evidence than its cost suggests. We ran a PRISMA guided review: twelve searches of Web of Science and Scopus on 2nd -4th November 2026 returned 1,183 records (761 unique), and grey-literature and hand-searches added 35 assessed sources. We synthesised 96 database records and 24 grey sources narratively. UK peer-reviewed evidence is small (16 records), and the main UK survey of crime and farmer mental health has 80 responses. Cost estimates rest on insurer claims: NFU Mutual put UK rural crime at {\pounds}41.5 million in 2025, with livestock theft up almost 30% to about {\pounds}4.5 million and dog attacks on livestock costing {\pounds}1.95 million. The Home Office states that agricultural crime cannot be separately identified in its central data. We found no independent evaluation of cameras, sensors, trackers or marking; light and sound deterrents lost effect within one to five months in a

A pullulan-type alpha-D-glucan synthesized from lactose by Aureobasidium pullulans attenuated weight gain and improved lipid markers in an obese rat model.

A study using 70 years of monitoring data finds that Japanese rice pest declines are driven more by pesticide use and land consolidation than by climate change.

Field trials in reclaimed desert soil show that foliar pyrogallol applications markedly increase aerial biomass and essential oil yields in fennel across developmental stages.

Researchers engineered cyanobacteria with enhanced antioxidant enzymes and oxidation-resistant elongation factors to maintain photosynthesis and cell survival under severe heat stress.

ZonationR is a new tool that simplifies the use of Zonation to identify priority areas for biodiversity conservation. It brings all stages of the conservation planning analysis together in one automated and reproducible workflow and helps users systematically explore and compare alternative conservation scenarios.

A qualitative investigation into agricultural environmental management has revealed that dairy and beef cattle farmers across the Republic of Ireland consistently identify atmospheric ammonia emissions as both the issue they are least aware of and the issue they perceive as least important to manage on their holdings.

A study spanning 2005 to 2024 reveals that China's low-carbon city pilot policies significantly reduce carbon emissions from agricultural inputs through structural, factor, and energy improvements.

Dave Swain explores how emerging technologies, AI, and evolving service offerings could reshape ag retail’s traditional business model and staffing needs. The post Is Ag Retail Really Going to Be Technology-Minded in the Future? appeared first on CropLife.

Microcosm experiments with Beijing vadose zone soils show that complete saturation and glucose inputs accelerate nitrate reduction while reshaping microbial functional gene profiles.

Researchers in Sicily have evaluated whether organic mixed crop-livestock systems can achieve integrated sustainability outcomes by incorporating legumes into crop rotations. The study, published in Agricultural and Food Economics, utilized a Living Lab approach to assess environmental performance, economic viability,

In a two-year field investigation examining drip-irrigated cotton production, researchers evaluated how co-applying different water-soluble phosphorus fertilizers alters soil phosphorus dynamics, crop uptake, and overall harvest output.

An interview-based study reveals how Ukrainian livestock producers adapted feed, power, and veterinary operations to maintain animal-source food production following severe disruptions caused by the 2022 Russian invasion.

Maintaining soil moisture between 70 and 75 percent field capacity suppresses root rot and enriches beneficial rhizosphere microbes in organic ginseng grown under pine forests.

To encourage new investments in more effective reef restoration activities, Australian scientists are recommending a new way of measuring biodiversity on coral reefs. A team of Australian environmental scientists led by James Cook University's distinguished professor Morgan Pratchett proposes the more rigorous and transparent framework in a paper published in the journal One Earth.

A multicenter study identified CDKN2A/B deletion, MET amplification, and PIK3R1 mutation as independent genomic markers of poor prognosis in IDH-wildtype glioblastoma.

Even among plastics labeled "biodegradable," some break down readily while others persist for long periods. In experiments using landfill leachate, a collaborative research team led by the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) demonstrated these differences and identified candidate microorganisms and enzymes potentially involved in plastic degradation.

Researchers have assembled a chromosome-level genome and karyotype profile of the Indian legume pod borer, resolving 31 chromosomes to support targeted pest management.

In a study published in Agriculture, researchers from the University of Johannesburg (UJ) propose a policy roadmap for an AI-driven precision farming approach to further improve indigenous and other livestock breeds' abilities to withstand extreme conditions in farming operations of all sizes and types.