AgriTech Review

A comprehensive triangulated review reveals two decades of UAE date palm research while highlighting critical gaps in technology adoption and supply chain integration.

A study in Lasius niger ants reveals that peripheral injury triggers chronic pain-like sensitization marked by allodynia and time-dependent hyperalgesia.

A Belgian study of 42 forest patches shows the capped Index of Biodiversity Potential rises with time since management ceased but frequently maxes out, underestimating true differences between managed and unmanaged woods.

Full-fat dairy may not be the health villain it has long been portrayed as, according to a new study finding that three daily servings did not worsen weight, cholesterol, or insulin resistance over 12 weeks. Researchers also observed improvements in blood pressure and nutrient intake, raising questions about longstanding recommendations to choose low-fat dairy.

An interpretive structural modelling study reveals that nine socio-technical facilitators form an interdependent cluster driving stakeholder trust in agricultural blockchain adoption.

A Nigerian team built a reusable calcium oxide and aluminum oxide catalyst from snail shells that converted high-acid jatropha oil to biodiesel at 93.4 percent yield without acid pretreatment.

A staged reliability framework reveals how parameter uncertainty drives failure risks in composite open-pit mine slopes despite deterministic safety margins.

A study in Northwest China explains how combining growing-season drip irrigation with post-harvest winter leaching prevents secondary soil salinization and preserves crop yields in hyper-arid river basins.

Endophytic bacteria isolated from two cactus species enhanced root biomass in greenhouse strawberry plants under reduced fertilization.

A study of 48 winter-grazed dairy cows found that calving sites split among natural shelter, artificial shelters and open paddock, with parity, rainfall and calf-to-dam weight ratio shaping the choice.

Researchers developed analytical estimating equations for constant-ductility residual displacement ratio spectra of inelastic structures considering soil-structure interaction effects.

A household survey in Kigoma, Tanzania reveals that Banana Bunchy Top Disease triggers catastrophic income losses while behavioral barriers undermine community disease prevention.

A 40-day anoxic microcosm study shows that flooding induces iron reduction, destabilizing mineral-associated soil organic carbon and driving methane and carbon dioxide emissions while expanding the chronic carbon pool.

A study of 342 Italian farms finds female operators achieve comparable digital innovation adoption through compensatory social networks despite smaller farm size and lower capitalization.

A study of 273 smallholder farmers in Bangladesh's Barind Tract demonstrates that while knowledge and attitudes toward sustainable agriculture are favorable, actual adoption remains moderate and is primarily gated by annual farm income.

Researchers have developed an advanced circular intuitionistic fuzzy decision-making framework that identifies and sequences critical supply chain capabilities to successfully implement circular bio-economy practices across multi-stakeholder agri-food networks.

A year-long survey in Orakzai District found wild prey made up 56.67 percent of wolf scat occurrences, while all 123 interviewed livestock households reported wolf attacks and 80.5 percent held negative views of the species.

Mulch films made from whole Ulva lactuca seaweed biomass lost about 65% of their mass after two months in soil and boosted Italian red chicory leaf area and biomass compared with polyethylene mulch or bare soil in a greenhouse trial.

A CeO2-Cu composite catalyst achieved 100% glycerol conversion and 90.34% lactic acid selectivity at 190 °C while resisting copper aggregation over five reaction cycles.

ACF's latest report, "Bulldozers and Broken Promises," an investigation into deforestation, has ruffled a few feathers. But someone has to do it. Why? Because deforestation is a huge problem in Australia.

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have discovered how a protein called TACO1 helps mitochondria produce proteins when the process encounters difficult sequences. The study, published in Nature Communications, provides new insights into a mechanism that is disrupted in some mitochondrial diseases.

Environmental DNA metabarcoding of 60 high-volume samples drawn from a fixed 612-meter deep-water intake off Kume Island, Japan, identified 283 deep-sea fish taxa over 26 months and revealed significant temporal shifts in assemblage composition.

Researchers carbonized corn cobs into porous carbon, loaded it with modified sodium sulfate decahydrate, and showed in micro-room experiments and simulations that the composite delays cooling far longer than air, polyurethane foam or carbon alone.

Researchers used keratinolytic Aspergillus fungi to compost chicken feather waste into a partially mature soil amendment that improved germination and growth in spinach, cabbage, and brinjal under pot conditions.

UNSW engineers have identified a number of chemicals that may merit closer scrutiny to ensure water utility companies and regulators can make informed decisions about the management of biosolids.

Microbes build a long-lived nitrogen reservoir in soil from the remains of dead bacteria and fungi, which cling to minerals and resist decay. The microbial nitrogen pump turns nitrogen taken up by living microbes into this persistent pool, and microbial nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) has long been assumed to regulate this process.

A three-year field experiment on the North China Plain found that combining winter green manure with biochar raised a composite soil quality index by 66.67 to 116.67 percent over winter fallow while maintaining maize yield under a 30 percent reduction in controlled-release nitrogen fertilizer.

Soil bacteria isolated beneath the Saharan tree Vachellia tortilis subsp. raddiana in Morocco showed strain-specific growth and auxin responses under salt and osmotic stress, with Pseudarthrobacter sp. LMR1158 and Pantoea sp. LMR881 emerging as candidates for further bioinoculant testing.

A new review maps the molecular design strategies that enable purely organic compounds to emit room-temperature phosphorescence and share triplet excitons with delayed fluorescence.

A retrospective cohort of 1,784 IVF and ICSI cycles found that high sperm DNA fragmentation was linked to poorer semen quality and a lower 2PN fertilization rate but not to embryo quality or pregnancy outcomes.

An outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus that nearly wiped out an Illinois farmer's backyard flock also spread to a domestic cat and wild rats on the farm, an analysis of the animals by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory and the University of Missouri Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory found.

WASHINGTON — As Americans prepare Thanksgiving meals, stock their refrigerators and eventually clear their plates, much of the food that goes uneaten will end up discarded. But food that can’t be eaten doesn’t have to go to waste entirely. Across the country, biogas capture facilities are recycling discarded food into renewable energy ─ and new […] The post Nearly 70 Million Tons of Food Waste Could Be a Major Source of Renewable Energy, New Research Finds appeared first on Morning Ag Clips.

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The Maryland Department of Agriculture (MDA) announced today [November 5, 2026] that approximately $100,000 will be awarded to 11 urban farms and community gardens through the inaugural Urban Agriculture Grant Program. The funding will help urban producers grow their operations, strengthen neighborhood connections and expand access to healthy, fresh food, particularly in […] The post Nearly $100,000 Awarded to Grow and Develop Community Gardens and Urban Farms Under Inaugural Grant Program appeared first on Morning Ag Clips.

Science investigation reveals firms have amassed tens of millions of hours of brain wave data from neurotech headbands, and face few constraints in using it

HomeScienceVol. 394, No. 6824Biodiversity-inclusive urban planning in ChinaBack To Vol. 394, No. 6824 Full accessLetter Share on Biodiversity-inclusive urban planning in ChinaNan Wang, Hai-Dong Li, [...] , Hao Shi, Xiao-Mian Zhang, and Li Liu+2 authors fewerAuthors Info & AffiliationsScience5 Nov 2026Vol 394, Issue 6824p. 603 PREVIOUS ARTICLEStart cryosphere flood warnings at the sourcePreviousNE…

China is transforming its agricultural landscape by building 67 million hectares of high-standard farmland and is aiming to expand this area to 90 million hectares by 2030 (1). By improving irrigation, drainage, soils, and resilience to droughts and floods, the program has become central to China’s food security and climate adaptation. However, the rapid expansion overlooks the importance of clean agricultural drainage water. Before the completion of the planned farmland, China should ensure that the fields do not increase pollution in downstream waterbodies.

Conservation agriculture reframes farming, risk, and resilience in Africa

A feature attention mechanism embedded in a deep network restored apple sugar-prediction accuracy across three harvest years using only a small share of each new season's samples.

A new review maps how glucose-sensing pathways Snf1, TOR and CCR4 control the yeast gene ADH2, the enzyme that turns ethanol into acetaldehyde and shapes industrial bioethanol yields.

A new mouse study shows that the medicinal herb Fructus Gardeniae protects against acute pancreatitis by restoring gut microbial balance and short-chain fatty acid production.

A handful of food delivery robots from Uber Eats and other platforms have gotten kicked and knocked over in Philadelphia and Los Angeles.

Three new peer-reviewed publications help to fill critical gaps in knowledge about Central America's freshwater ecosystems, which support extraordinary biodiversity but remain among the least-studied ecosystems in the world.

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

Van Oord and Vestas have installed the final wind turbine at the 760 MW Ecowende offshore wind farm in the Dutch North Sea, completing the...

A new review argues that climate-resilient livestock systems require integrating animal welfare, genetic resources, precision technology and trade-off-aware assessment rather than isolated productivity fixes.

Clay minerals, ultraviolet radiation and soil burial depth jointly control how biodegradable mulch films degrade, with buried films aging faster than surface films.

Massachusetts voters decisively shot down a ballot initiative that would have dismantled the state’s recreational cannabis industry.

Tobacco stem biochar kills Ralstonia solanacearum through temperature-dependent reactive oxygen species while enriching beneficial rhizosphere bacteria.

A narrative review defines herd health management as a continuous cyclic process of planning, implementing and evaluating decisions to promote herd health on livestock farms.

An integrated AIoT platform deployed in a Tunisian olive orchard combines real-time fuzzy-based water quality assessment with LSTM forecasting of irrigation timing and duration.

WorkWave adds AI tools to RealGreen and PestPac to help businesses track stalled quotes, customer retention, and sales opportunities.

A new review synthesizes international evidence on how antibiotic-resistant bacteria and resistance genes move through meat, dairy, eggs, produce, and seafood, and outlines One Health strategies to curb the threat.

A field trial across three Haryana sites found that organic substrates inoculated with indigenous salt-tolerant bacteria significantly reduced soil salinity at multiple depths and raised organic carbon and phosphorus availability within one growing season.

India’s ethanol-blending rate for gasoline could fall below its 20% target as a drought forces New Delhi to prioritize food supplies Read Full Article at RT.com

LOS ANGELES — Agriculture depends on the exchange of practical knowledge, timely information, and experience between farmers, researchers, suppliers, and rural communities. As digital communication becomes more important across the agricultural industry, organizations are exploring new ways to explain farming practices, introduce innovations, and share information with audiences who have different levels of technical knowledge. […] The post How Digital Storytelling Is Helping Agriculture Reach Modern Audiences appeared first on Morning Ag Clips.

Van Oord and Vestas have installed the final wind turbine at the 760 MW Ecowende offshore wind farm in the Dutch North Sea, completing the...

Learn how the spread of H5N1 avian influenza among dairy farms in Washington State led to the first human bird flu death in the U.S. in 2026.  

Syngenta’s Jeff Cecil explains how AI-powered forecasting could help ag retailers optimize crop protection inventories, reduce costs, and better anticipate demand. The post Can AI Help Ag Retailers Stop Guessing on Inventory? appeared first on CropLife.

New research funded by the [foundationfar.org]Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research’s (FFAR) Growing Impact Award could help plant breeders and farmers respond more rapidly to food production needs. FFAR and matching funders Iowa State University (ISU), KeyGene, KWS and RAGT are providing a combined investment of $960,107 to ISU researchers to improve doubled haploid technology, […] The post New Research Aims to Speed Delivery of Improved Crops to Farmers   appeared first on CropLife.

A study of 394 topsoil samples in Daye, China, found that cadmium drove ecological risk, arsenic dominated carcinogenic risk and copper defined the contamination footprint, with sources tracking ore type rather than distance to mines.

A new transcriptomic study shows that terrestrial diets shift fatty acid gene expression in Gammarus locusta, while warmer rearing temperatures speed growth but coincide with reduced long-term survival.

The new study by Newcastle University and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) offers a practical roadmap for tracking progress toward halting species extinctions by 2050. It guides users from understanding where species are most at risk in a given area, through taking action to reduce species threats, to measuring the real-world impact of conservation efforts on reducing species extinction risk over time.

A new mini-review argues that precision fermentation will only scale when strain design, bioreactor intensification, real-time control, and techno-economic assessment are integrated from the start.

Fish that are cultivated in pools or ponds are an increasingly important source of food around the world. Unfortunately, disease outbreaks can cause substantial losses in aquaculture.

Cold conditions may not have been responsible for the centuries-long pause in the spread of farming across south-eastern Europe during prehistory, according to a new study by the Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie (LEIZA) in Germany, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Researchers found no evidence of extreme cold at the Greek archaeological site of Franchthi, nor any statistically significant link between local temperature fluctuations and changes in how people obtained their food.

Hundreds of millions of metric tons of plastics are produced every year, and most of them end up sitting in landfills or polluting natural environments after use. These plastics endure for dozens to hundreds of years. But some scientists are on the lookout for solutions to this problem. And now, one team of researchers might have found a potential solution in bee nests. Their study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows that a natural plastic made by bees may offer design lessons for plastics that degrade naturally in far less time.

More than a century after they were excavated from beneath Cairo, almost 3,000 stone tools from Heliopolis show that specialized work was already reshaping village life before Egypt became a state.

IIT Kharagpur and Absolute join the Quad’s inaugural AI-ENGAGE cohort to develop Smart Scout, an AI-powered system for soybean monitoring, pest detection, crop damage assessment and yield estimation.

Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale reportedly backs a US startup planning a 30,000 capacity monkey farm amid rising prices and restricted international supplies.

When we think about Antarctica, many people imagine penguins, seals and whales. However, the majority of Antarctica's scientific wonders cannot be seen without a microscope. These microbial communities form the foundation of Antarctic ecosystems yet remain largely invisible to most visitors.

Nearly 200 countries recently came together in Armenia for the 2026 United Nations Biodiversity Conference to review progress toward halting and reversing biodiversity loss. Many of these governments will soon convene again in Turkey to discuss efforts to tackle climate change at COP31.

Michigan-based Exedy Drones says first deliveries are targeted for spring 2027, subject to engineering, FAA, dealer and production readiness. The post Exedy Drones opens reservations amid US spray drone shakeup appeared first on AgFunderNews.

A new study led by Dr. Shikma Zaarur of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in collaboration with Dr. Ran Erel of the Agricultural Research Organization–Volcani Institute, reveals that agricultural soils may contain a substantial unaccounted-for reservoir of potassium, an essential nutrient for plant growth, that is largely overlooked by conventional soil testing methods. The findings could pave the way for more precise fertilizer recommendations, potentially reducing unnecessary fertilizer use while supporting sustainable agricultural production.

One of the main obstacles to the commercial application of biodiesel is the influence of the raw material fatty acid composition on its properties

An analysis by Japan’s GMO Internet Group found that a North Korea-linked hacking group was likely behind the cyberattack on the company last month, sources close to the matter said, citing characteristics of the malware used and other traces left by the perpetrators. The company appears to have already reported the matter to the government and will now focus on determining the full circumstances. Kyodo News, working with security experts, also found that five IP addresses used to access a...

CropLife Editor Eric Sfiligoj and Amy Asmus, Co-Owner of Asmus Farm Supply are joined by Dan Bjorklund, Technical Agronomy Lead from Landus Cooperative to break down early harvest trends and critical fall agronomy decisions for ag retailers. The post CropLife Retail Week: Fall Anhydrous Truths, Drone Scouting, and Iowa Harvest appeared first on CropLife.

Iran is seeking to expand agricultural cooperation with African countries, focusing on joint investment, technology transfer and food security.

Countries renewed their promises to protect wildlife at U.N. talks in Armenia, but how to cover the costs remains a question.

In the Texas Panhandle, two livestock guardian dogs patrol a herd of cattle grazing the Rita Blanca National Grasslands. Although their singular focus is protecting the herd from would-be predators, their presence may make them wildlife conservation allies.

Science can't study a species—or unlock its potential to change the world—until people actually know it exists. Four new species of frogs have now been given names, thanks to the efforts of FIU biologist Alessandro Catenazzi.

The rice disease bacterial leaf blight (for short: BB) is causing significant yield losses in Asia and Africa. It is triggered by the bacterium Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo), which has many distinct regional strains on various continents.

By: Victoria Tenor In January 2026, Canada took a step forward in agricultural biotechnology by approving the country’s first gene-edited (GE) mammal for human consumption. … The post Canada Approves its First Gene-edited Pig for Human Consumption appeared first on SAIFood.

A new artificial strawberry stem mimics natural bending behavior and withstands repeated cutting and healing, offering a low-cost platform for agricultural robotics research.

A survey of 376 farms in four European countries shows that compensatory payments sustain farmers' intentions to maintain agroforestry, while abolishing support sharply lowers both maintenance and adoption intentions.

A 32-day factorial field trial in a Chinese greenhouse found that plastic-film mulching reduced bacterial richness and diversity while raising fungal diversity, with inoculant effects depending on mulching status.

A new review finds that a single alkaline pretreatment can convert agricultural waste into both water-purifying bioadsorbents and cellulose precursors for biopolymers, though real-wastewater performance and industrial scale-up remain unproven.

A new review describes how plant-derived extracellular vesicles carry stress-responsive proteins and RNAs between cells and may enable RNA-based crop protection.

Soil fungus Aspergillus terreus MAK153 suppresses Fusarium oxysporum growth and zearalenone production while producing simvastatin, which docking simulations link to ergosterol biosynthesis enzymes.

In a two-year Jordanian field trial, 48 rapeseed accessions irrigated with saline water and treated wastewater produced up to 4.49 tonnes of seed per hectare while removing 78.48–111.60 kg of sodium per hectare each year.

Controlled laboratory fires killed every fertilized and unfertilized ponderosa pine sapling at the highest tested intensity, showing pre-fire nitrogen offers no protection.

A 2026 review finds that propolis, the resinous bee glue honeybees use to seal their hives, shows species-dependent promise as a natural immunostimulant, antimicrobial and antiparasitic additive in aquaculture, with ethanolic extracts outperforming aqueous and crude forms.

Soil surveys at Tibet's Yangbajing geothermal field show that mercury, arsenic and antimony anomalies trace fluid migration paths and record how the system responded to decades of exploitation.

A qualitative study of cocoa, banana by-product and blackberry producers in Ecuador, Peru and Colombia links tailored financial education training to stronger internal governance in short food supply chains.

A survey of 150 smallholder dairy farmers in Ethiopia's Siltie Zone found that 60 percent had never heard of aflatoxins and 90 percent had never seen mold on feed, revealing severe knowledge gaps about a toxin that can pass from contaminated feeds into milk.

A new opinion article argues that fermented dairy lipids show anti-inflammatory potential, but a clear link to chronic disease remains unproven.

A handful of soil holds a crowded world of bacteria, fungi and other organisms. Scientists can collect their DNA, but much of it remains difficult to identify. Now, researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and partner institutions have developed an artificial intelligence tool that helps make sense of this genetic puzzle.

A controlled incubation study reports that persistent free radicals on biochar surfaces redirect straw-derived carbon toward mineral-associated organic matter in two contrasting agricultural soils.

A qualitative study in rural Burkina Faso finds that mothers and local stakeholders see home gardens as a promising way to improve child nutrition, but face barriers of labour, water access, land rights and climate risks.

A study of Aleppo pine forests in eastern Spain finds that recurrent fires reduce soil fungal phylogenetic diversity, favor Basidiomycota and ectomycorrhizal lineages, and elevate nitrogen- and phosphorus-mobilizing enzyme activities, with tree phenotypes rather than climate or soil conditions primarily shaping these underground communities.