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A sweeping surveillance study of the dairy supply chain in Yazd province, Iran, has revealed that raw milk is the principal reservoir of Listeria monocytogenes, a foodborne pathogen that ranks among the deadliest threats circulating in the global food system. Researchers collected 370 samples spanning raw milk, pasteurised commercial milk, milking equipment, transport containers, and […]

Robotic fruit picking has long promised to ease the labor crunch facing orchard growers, but the promise has repeatedly collided with a stubborn technical reality: a robot’s camera sees a chaotic world of overlapping leaves, dappled light, and fruit hanging at awkward angles. A study published in BMC Plant Biology by Hongyan Zhu, Runlong Cao, […]

Insect pests are quietly winning a war that most of the world never sees. With an estimated four to six million arthropod species spread across nearly every ecosystem on Earth, crop damage and disease transmission caused by insects continue to erode food security and farm incomes on a global scale. For decades, the answer has […]

Beneath every sugarcane field lies an invisible workforce of bacteria and fungi that quietly decides whether the crop thrives or struggles. A sweeping new analysis of global research has now mapped, in unprecedented detail, how farming choices—from fertiliser regimes to intercropping and straw management—reshape these underground communities. The findings, published as a scoping review in […]

As the 2026 El Niño intensifies across the Amazon basin, a landmark study published in Science has delivered one of the most rigorous answers yet to a question that has long divided conservation science: when money is limited, is it better to protect the forests that still stand, or to replant the ones that have […]

AI-powered drones are transforming field monitoring, turning aerial data into actionable intelligence that helps agribusinesses prioritize inspections and improve efficiency. The post Beyond Crop Scouting: How AI-Powered Drones Could Reshape Precision Agriculture appeared first on CropLife.

When the COVID-19 pandemic severed supply chains, closed markets, and stripped millions of Nigerians of their incomes, an unlikely buffer emerged in backyards, on balconies, and in small urban plots. Home gardening, the cultivation of fruits, vegetables, and herbs around the household, appears to have played a measurable role in protecting dietary quality during one […]

A team of researchers in Nigeria has developed a strikingly simple way to catch dangerous foodborne bacteria: tiny particles grown by a common soil microbe that flip from colorless to intense red when they encounter two of the world’s most notorious food pathogens. The study, published in Discover Biotechnology, describes iron oxide-gold nanocomposites biosynthesized by […]

A fatty acid already prized in nutrition circles may have found its most compelling role yet: shielding the mammary gland from the inflammatory damage that plagues dairy cows worldwide. In a new study published in Food Science & Nutrition, researchers report that supplementing the diets of mice with conjugated linoleic acid, or CLA, significantly blunted […]

For decades, knowing what lies beneath a farmer’s feet has meant one thing: bagging up soil, sending it to a laboratory, and waiting days or weeks for a chemical report. That waiting game may soon be over. Researchers at the Indian Institute of Information Technology Dharwad have demonstrated that a commercially available, low-cost electrochemical soil […]

Every week, fleets of road sweepers trundle through cities collecting a gritty, unglamorous slurry of litter, leaves, grit, glass and plastics from the streets. Most of that material, once washed and separated, ends up in landfill or incineration, at considerable cost to councils and the environment. Now a team of researchers in Manchester has shown […]

In a finding that could reshape how engineers build roads and embankments across South Asia, researchers in Bangladesh have shown that a modest dose of coal combustion waste can dramatically strengthen the very soils that foundations and highways rest upon. The study, published in Discover Soil, examined fly ash from the Barapukuria Coal-Fired Thermal Power […]

A team of plant microbiome researchers has launched a free, continuously updated database that collects, organizes and serves up the growing body of evidence on small molecules produced by plant-associated microbes that help their hosts fight off disease. The resource, called drSMALL, short for the Disease Resistance-Shaping Small Molecules Database, was described in a letter […]

On a growing number of farms in southwestern Nigeria, chickens and fish share the same piece of land in a system that is as ingenious as it is potentially dangerous. Poultry houses are built directly over fish ponds or right beside them, and the droppings from the birds fall into the water below, fertilizing blooms […]

Across the eroded highlands of northwestern Ethiopia, some of the world’s most ambitious soil conservation campaigns are being built by hand, village by village, slope by slope. Millions of days of communal labor have gone into stone-faced soil bunds, check dams, micro-trenches and hillside terraces, all designed to hold back the runoff that strips the […]

Every year, roughly a third of all food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted, a figure that carries a staggering environmental price tag in the form of greenhouse gas emissions, squandered water and land resources, and mounting pressure on overflowing landfills. A new open-access review published in Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts argues […]

Cultured meat has long promised a future in which real animal protein is grown in bioreactors rather than raised in pastures, but the field has quietly been stuck on a deceptively simple question: which cells should we grow? A comprehensive new review published in Food Science of Animal Resources argues that the answer, for now […]

The FDA detected Cyclospora in two environmental samples linked to a lettuce outbreak that sickened 12,883 people, but said the findings did not establish the contamination route.

For years, agricultural scientists have promoted crop diversification as one of the most reliable levers for building soil organic carbon, the vast carbon reservoir that underlies both soil fertility and climate mitigation. The logic seemed straightforward: adding legumes or rice to a rotation changes the amount and quality of plant-derived carbon entering the soil, and […]

Broccoli plants grown beneath semi-transparent, magenta-colored solar panels used sunlight far more efficiently than crops grown in full sun, according to a study published October 2 in the Cell Press journal Cell Reports Physical Science. The research, conducted at an experimental site on a farm in Sweden, found that the shaded plants achieved a 4.5-fold […]

As heatwaves scorch farmland, soils grow saltier and heavy metals linger in the ground, agriculture is running out of easy answers. A review published in the journal Crop Health argues that one of the most promising tools may be a molecule so small and so ordinary that it has been hiding in plain sight: glycine […]

A flowering shrub better known for adorning tropical gardens than for stocking pharmacists’ shelves is now commanding serious attention from natural products chemists. Clerodendrum chinense, commonly called the Chinese glory bower or Honolulu rose, has been the subject of a comprehensive integrative review published in Discover Chemistry that pulls together decades of scattered evidence on […]

Synthetic biology has moved from a provocative idea to one of the fastest-moving disciplines in modern science, and a comprehensive new review published in Discover Biotechnology maps just how far the field has traveled. Authors Pelinsu Karataş and Furkan Ayaz of Biruni University trace the discipline from its conceptual origins in the 1910s, when Stéphane […]

DoorDash has revealed more details of its drone program, while Amazon is facing noise complaints over its drones.

Hidden beneath every productive pasture lies a bustling underground economy, and a new field experiment suggests farmers can tip the balance in their favor by recruiting the right microbial partners. Researchers at Yasouj University in Iran report that combining arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi with a modest dose of phosphorus fertilizer dramatically improves both forage output and […]

Policy chiefs, farmers and researchers debate what’s needed to propel innovations into markets and onto farms faster and at scale. The post EU looks to speed agricultural research to market despite budget pressures appeared first on AgFunderNews.

On the surface of every leaf lies a hidden ecosystem, a bustling community of bacteria, fungi, and other microorganisms collectively known as the phyllosphere. Far from being passive passengers, these microbes play a decisive role in plant health, influencing everything from nutrient uptake to resistance against devastating pathogens. Now, a wave of research highlighted in […]

For decades, measuring how efficiently a crop photosynthesizes has meant clamping leaves into portable gas-exchange devices one at a time, a slow and painstaking process that limits how many plants a breeder can realistically evaluate. Now a team of researchers in China has built a deep learning framework that can estimate more than a dozen […]

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.

Registration is now open for the fourth annual Montana Ag Technology Innovation Summit. In coordination with the Montana Department of Agriculture (MDA) and Montana State University (MSU), the Montana Agricultural… Source

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 […]