AgriTech Review

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

arXiv:2609.36582v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Foot-ground interaction signals recorded by quadruped robots may enable spatially distributed, in situ characterization of soil strength. As a first step, we test whether the internal friction angle $\phi$ of cohesionless soil can be identified from the force history of a simplified rotating leg. A two-dimensional continuum model implemented with the material point method, benchmarked against measured rotating-leg force histories, generates the training data, and two Gaussian-process surrogates support Bayesian inversion of the full histories. In matched-model experiments, the framework recovers 14 off-grid friction angles with a median absolute error of approximately $0.1^\circ$ (maximum $\sim 0.7^\circ$); the reported credible intervals contain the true value in every case. These results establish that $\phi$ is identifiable when the forward model is correctly specified, and support further development of proprioceptive soil sensing

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

Gray Construction and Ameris Bank—the two primary secured creditors of defunct cultivated meat company Believer Meats—are mulling a combined credit and cash bid for the firm’s production facility in North Carolina. The post Exclusive: Believer Meats creditors weigh bid for US plant after UPSIDE Foods exit appeared first on AgFunderNews.

Birds are not only beautiful to look at and listen to; they also play important roles in nature. They eat pests and disperse seeds. They are generally considered indicators of a healthy environment. When birds thrive, soil and water quality often benefit as well. A new study published in the journal Landscape Ecology shows that growing a variety of crops in small field patches creates better habitats for birds.

The 52nd annual Montana Angus Tour brought cattle producers, Angus breeders and international visitors to Montana’s Hi-Line. The three-day tour highlighted the diversity of cattle operations across the region and… Source

The hope is that ArkeaBio's first product could be commercialized and start generating revenues in 2028, says CEO Frank Wooten. The post Exclusive: ArkeaBio raises $15m for livestock methane tech, cuts headcount appeared first on AgFunderNews.

RDO demonstrates connected equipment, precision technology, and local support solutions to help farmers maximize efficiency all season. The post RDO Showcases Smarter Equipment, Precision Tech and Support at Big Iron appeared first on CropLife.

Artificial intelligence promises to transform food safety by helping companies identify risks earlier, predict outbreaks and learn from patterns too rare for any one company to detect alone. But AI depends on one thing: large, diverse datasets.

The Farm Robotics Challenge launched its 2027 season on Sept. 15, unveiling a new three-division competition structure, a Startup pathway for teams committed to launching a company and more than $200,000 in prizes and startup support backed by a coalition of industry partners. Watch the 2027 Launch Webinar replay to learn about the new divisions, awards, Startup pathway and … The post Farm Robotics Challenge Launches 2027 Season appeared first on California Ag Network.

University of Melbourne researchers have found that planting native gardens on suburban nature strips can boost urban biodiversity, with insect numbers increasing sevenfold and the number of species approximately doubling.

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Researchers at the University of Kentucky Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment (CAFE) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture have discovered that mating changes the chemical coating on New World screwworm (NWS) fly species with maggots that can cause serious tissue destruction and deadly diseases in livestock and other animals. The […] The post UK Researchers Identify Mating-Related Chemical Changes in New World screwworm appeared first on Morning Ag Clips.

Unverified social media posts claim Candace Owens was linked to four dating profiles and was unfaithful in 2022, but no independent evidence has confirmed the allegations.

AI is transforming Indian agriculture through weather forecasting, pest surveillance, farmer IDs, and voice-based advisory services. The next step is to make AI more human by providing local-language, location-specific, transparent, and easy-to-question advice, while keeping human experts involved in complex cases.

AI is transforming Indian agriculture through weather forecasting, pest surveillance, farmer IDs, and voice-based advisory services. The next step is to make AI more human by providing local-language, location-specific, transparent, and easy-to-question advice, while keeping human experts involved in complex cases.

Food in Senegal is mostly grown on small-scale, rain-dependent farms, leaving much of the population vulnerable to climate shocks, according to the World Food Programme. However, satellite crop-mapping technologies designed to monitor the impact of climate on farming are largely beyond the reach of the West African country.

A woman says her mother secretly transferred the family's 64-hectare East Gippsland sheep farm to one son, sparking a dispute among seven siblings.

A new study finds that exposure to birdsong soundscapes or forest landscapes reduces physiological stress. These findings of physical health effects complement previous research showing mental health benefits associated with birdwatching and could be useful for urban planners with limited green space options.

BROOKINGS, S.D. — The South Dakota State University Weed Science graduate team placed second in the Western Society of Weed Science category at the North Central Weed Science Society and WSWS Joint Student Weed Contest, hosted by Bayer, July 29-30. Students, representing both an undergraduate team and a graduate team, prepared for months studying weed […] The post SDSU Weed Science Teams Compete in First-ever Contest, Graduate Team Finishes Second appeared first on Morning Ag Clips.

Farmers used to sniff their soil to gauge how healthy it was. According to ecologist Rosa Boone, you can deduce a great deal from its smell: "The fungi and bacteria present in the soil are important for soil health and are responsible for the soil's smell." Boone discovered that the smell of soil can be captured and analyzed in the lab, providing insights into these microbial communities. "Monitoring soil life is becoming increasingly important, particularly in view of the forthcoming soil monitoring guidelines. My research shows that there is great potential for developing a sensor—an 'electronic nose'—that could be used to analyze microbial soil life directly, based on how it smells."

A sweeping new analysis of a decade of agricultural research suggests that the way we farm may shape not only what grows in our fields, but which microbes thrive beneath them and how much greenhouse gas escapes from the soil. In a study published in Discover Soil, researchers led by Neha Kalonia and Dipti Grover […]

Aquaculture is one of the fastest growing food sectors on the planet, but raising fish at high density in closed systems creates a stubborn chemical problem: nitrogen. Fish excrete ammonia, beneficial microbes convert it to nitrite and then nitrate, and if nitrate builds up, operators must either dilute the water with large volumes of exchange […]

Beneath every plant, the narrow sleeve of soil hugging its roots—the rhizosphere—is one of the most chemically active zones on Earth. Roots leak sugars, organic acids and other compounds into this zone, feeding microbes and dissolving minerals, and in doing so they can dramatically accelerate or slow the breakdown of soil organic matter. A new […]

Atrazine, the most heavily used herbicide in Brazilian agriculture, has long been a double-edged sword: it keeps weeds out of sugarcane and corn fields, yet it lingers in soil long enough to threaten crops, waterways, wildlife and possibly human health. Now a perspective article published in Discover Plants by researchers at the Federal University of […]

Agri-photovoltaics combines electricity generation and agriculture on the same land—to ensure this works well in the long term, it is worth taking a closer look at the soil. Researchers at the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) have, for the first time, measured how the construction phase of agri-photovoltaic installations affects soil structure.

Scientists have streamlined a method for measuring DNA-bound phosphorus in soil, making it cheaper and easier while preserving its accuracy. The technique could reveal how soil microbes help recycle phosphorus and ultimately support more sustainable fertilizer and nutrient management.

Fish, like all animals, experience stress, but for the billions of creatures raised in aquaculture systems worldwide, stress is not merely an inconvenience—it is a major driver of disease, stunted growth, and mortality. A new mini review published in Blue Biotechnology by researchers at ICAR-Central Institute of Fisheries Education in Mumbai examines how one of […]

Maize is one of the most widely grown cereal crops on Earth, and its future productivity increasingly depends on a counterintuitive idea: planting more plants into less space. High-density cultivation squeezes more ears out of every hectare, but it also triggers fierce competition for light, water and nutrients, causing tall, leafy plants to shade one […]

Heavy metal contamination of soil is one of the most stubborn environmental problems of the industrial age, and a new laboratory study from Nigeria suggests that a carefully tuned electric current could help solve it faster than many researchers thought possible. A team at Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife has shown that a low-power electrochemical […]

In the highlands of western Ethiopia, a simple act of restraint is quietly rebuilding the ground beneath farmers’ feet. A new study from Gida Ayana District, in the East Wollega Zone of Oromia, shows that simply closing degraded land to grazing and human interference for seven years can dramatically improve the chemical and physical health […]

A new field-ready machine could help farmers and agronomists spot hidden threats early, protecting crops and strengthening agricultural resilience. The post SIU Researchers Build Robot, AI to Detect Soybean Diseases Before Symptoms Appear appeared first on CropLife.

A sweeping new systematic review and meta-analysis has produced the most detailed global picture yet of Staphylococcus aureus in bovine intramammary infections, the udder infections broadly known as mastitis that rank among the most economically damaging diseases of dairy cattle worldwide. Pulling together 143 peer-reviewed studies published between 2010 and 2025, spanning 40 countries and […]

Scientists think beneficial fungi could help transform nutrient-poor lunar and Martian regolith into a material capable of supporting crops. By helping plants access nutrients and withstand harsh conditions, these microbes could someday make self-sustaining space farming more realistic.

Insect pests are quietly one of the most expensive problems in global agriculture. According to estimates from the Food and Agriculture Organization cited in a new review published in Discover Agriculture, insect infestations destroy up to 40 percent of global crop production each year, inflicting economic damage exceeding 220 billion US dollars. For decades, farmers […]

In the highlands and lowlands of rural Ethiopia, what a family grows on its own plot may matter more to the nutritional health of mothers and young children than almost any other factor researchers can measure. A large new study of more than 500 women and 250 young children across five Ethiopian regions has found […]

Beneath the rolling tea gardens of India’s Kangra Valley, an invisible ecosystem of bacteria, fungi and archaea is hard at work, sustaining one of the world’s most beloved beverages. A new metagenomic study has now catalogued this hidden biodiversity in unprecedented detail, sequencing millions of DNA fragments from the soil that clings to tea roots […]

Smart farms run on a quiet promise: that the sensors watching soil moisture, temperature, and nutrient flow are telling the truth. When a sensor drifts, freezes, or fails outright, the automated systems that irrigate fields and regulate greenhouses can respond to fiction instead of fact, quietly overwatering crops or letting them dry out. A new […]

Across the tropical dairy belts of Brazil, one particular cow has quietly become the backbone of the national milk supply. Known as the F1 Holstein × Gyr, a first-generation cross between the high-yielding European Holstein and the heat-hardy Indian Gyr zebu, it belongs to the broader Girolando synthetic breed that now accounts for more than […]

Every year, contaminated food sickens more than one in ten people worldwide and is estimated to cause over 4.2 million deaths, according to figures from the World Health Organization cited in a sweeping new review published in Food Science & Nutrition. Against that backdrop, researchers argue that artificial intelligence is no longer a futuristic curiosity […]

Neonicotinoid insecticides have long been scrutinized for their effects on bees, butterflies, and other pollinators, but a new study suggests that another, far less visible set of victims may be sitting quietly in the dirt beneath treated crops. Soil fungi, the microscopic architects of healthy farmland, appear to shift in diversity and composition after exposure […]

Beneath every forest floor, an invisible war and an uneasy truce unfold simultaneously. Bacteriophages, the viruses that infect soil bacteria, can rupture their hosts in a burst of viral replication, or they can quietly integrate their genomes into bacterial chromosomes and ride along as dormant passengers, a state known as lysogeny. While viral lysis has […]

For decades, one of the most intuitive ideas in soil science has been that more reactive minerals in the ground should mean more carbon locked away. Clays and silts are studded with charged cations such as calcium, magnesium, aluminum and iron, which can grab organic molecules and bind them into stable compounds that resist microbial […]

A team of Bangladeshi agricultural researchers has shown that an Internet of Things (IoT) enabled, sensor-driven drip irrigation system can grow eggplants with dramatically less water, fertilizer, and labor than conventional farming, while matching or slightly exceeding the yields that traditional practices deliver. The field trial, conducted at the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI) in […]

Plastic pollution has quietly become one of the defining contamination problems of the modern era, and its most troubling dimension may be the smallest. A new peer-reviewed review published in the journal Microplastics and Nanoplastics by Javad Karimi of Shiraz University in Iran and Sachin Seth and Reshma Sinha of Central University of Himachal Pradesh […]

Every year, farms around the world discard millions of tons of biomass—rice straw, corn stover, sugarcane bagasse, fruit peels, oilseed cakes, and animal by-products—much of which is burned in open fields or left to rot, releasing carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide into the atmosphere. A new open-access review published in Discover Industrial Chemistry and […]

Scientists have often thought of cells as small, bustling cities with parts that resemble factories, power grids and shipping systems. While past research has illuminated the individual components of these cell cities, scientists haven't had the tools to probe more deeply into how those elements interact.

California agriculture takes center stage in the latest AgNet NewsHour, as Nick Papagni, the Ag Meter, talks with fourth-generation Bakersfield farmer Jason Giannelli and Patrick Williams of SkySense about some ... Read More The post California Water, Farming and Ag Technology in Focus appeared first on AgNet West.

Climate change is bringing extreme summer heat to many more countries, but using the right plants in your garden could help keep your home a bit cooler next summer.

Every oyster farm in South Korea’s southern coastal waters floats on a quiet environmental disaster. Roughly 24 million expanded polystyrene buoys bob among the country’s 55 million aquaculture floats, and as they grind against waves, bake in ultraviolet light, and cycle between soaking and drying, they shed microscopic fragments directly into the waters where oysters […]

In the rice fields of northern Bangladesh, the timing of a pest invasion is written in the weather. A six-year monitoring study conducted at the Bangladesh Rice Research Institute’s regional station in Rangpur has now mapped, month by month and season by season, how the region’s most damaging rice insects and their natural enemies rise […]

A single bowl of wild vegetable soup was enough to trigger one of the most sobering plant-poisoning investigations published in recent years. In a study released in BMC Pharmacology and Toxicology, a team from the Guizhou Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention and collaborating institutions in China describes a fatal familial poisoning incident in […]

Chinese agriculture has long been trapped in a thorny triangle of interlocking problems: farmers apply too much chemical fertilizer, conventional plastic mulch film lingers in the soil for decades, and the vast mountains of livestock manure generated by the country’s animal husbandry sector go largely unused. Each of these problems feeds the others. Over-fertilization acidifies […]

Every year, vast quantities of nitrogen fertilizer applied to pastures and croplands are transformed by soil microbes into nitrate, a form of nitrogen that slips easily through soil into waterways and feeds the production of nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas nearly 300 times more potent than carbon dioxide. For decades, farmers have fought this transformation […]

Forests provide timber as well as many other ecosystem services. An important question is how measures to conserve biodiversity affect the profitability of forest operations focused on wood production. Researchers from Wageningen University & Research and the University of Freiburg reviewed studies worldwide that compared forest management with biodiversity conservation measures against business-as-usual management without those measures. The work is published in the journal Current Forestry Reports.

In a finding that could reshape how agricultural knowledge reaches some of the world’s poorest farmers, a new study from Malawi reports that more than 86 percent of smallholder farmers are willing to pay for agricultural extension and advisory services that have historically been delivered free of charge by the state. The research, conducted across […]

Soil moisture is the quiet variable that decides whether a season ends in harvest or hunger. It governs how rainfall splits between infiltration and runoff, how much water plants can actually reach, and how the land exchanges energy with the atmosphere. Now, the first national-scale synthesis of soil moisture science in Kenya has mapped exactly […]

A field experiment in Punjab, India, has shown that pairing ordinary soil bacteria with zinc and iron nanoparticles can push garden pea plants to grow faster, yield more pods, and pack in more protein and vitamins, all while improving the soil they grow in. The study, conducted at Lovely Professional University in Phagwara during the […]

In the parched farmlands of the world’s semi-arid belts, crops rarely face one threat at a time. A field of wheat or maize may be sown into saline soil, endure weeks without rain, then be hammered by a heatwave just as pathogens arrive. Scientists have long known that plants respond differently to combined stresses than […]

Glycerol, the humble three-carbon alcohol churned out by the billion litres every year as a by-product of biodiesel production, has long been a paradox of the green chemistry movement. For every ten kilograms of biodiesel manufactured, roughly one kilogram of glycerol is generated, and while the fuel itself finds eager markets, the co-product frequently accumulates […]

On the dusty, wind-scoured terraces of China’s semiarid Loess Plateau, apple growers have long wrestled with a stubborn paradox: the region’s deep, well-drained loess soils are ideal for fruit trees, yet decades of intensive cultivation and heavy chemical fertilization have left many orchards degraded, compacted, and starved of organic matter. Now, a three-year field experiment […]

Shrimp farming has become one of the world’s fastest-growing food industries, and India now ranks as the second-largest shrimp farming nation on the planet. But behind every plate of farmed shrimp lies a hidden cost: effluent water loaded with ammonium, nitrate, and phosphate that flows into coastal ecosystems, triggering algal blooms, oxygen depletion, and mass […]

New analyses of ancient cattle, sheep and goat bones on Madagascar suggest the rapid spread of introduced livestock on the island 1,200 years ago coincided with forest loss and population declines of large native herbivores.

Howard Buffett becomes Berkshire Hathaway chairman after Warren Buffett steps down, taking responsibility for protecting the $1.1T company's culture.

Scientists from the Biosciences Department at Durham University have outlined possible new approaches to protecting crops from devastating diseases by finding common weaknesses in the proteins pathogens use to attack plants. The researchers presented their ideas in a recent review article in The Plant Journal.

McDonald's shares fell 4.81% after it unveiled its $8.5bn NEXT strategy to modernise restaurants and revive customer traffic amid weak sales.

The collaboration aims to advance agricultural resilience and crop-based carbon removal using AI technologies. Read more: Oracle and Wild Bio partner to advance AI-powered agriculture

California agriculture faces constant changes in labor regulations, water management and operating costs, making timely information increasingly important for farmers and ranchers. On the latest AgNet News Hour, “The Ag ... Read More The post AgNet News Hour: Farm Labor, Water Tech in Focus appeared first on AgNet West.

War has always destroyed harvests, but a sweeping new analysis published in Nature Food shows just how systematically armed conflict strips the planet of its farmland. By combining annual, high-resolution cropland maps covering the years 2000 to 2020 with a database of more than 460,000 recorded conflict events across 155 countries, a team of researchers […]

Walk down any supermarket aisle and the packages seem to be shouting about wellness. More than half of new food products launched in the United States now carry some kind of health-related claim on the front of the pack, yet only about a third of those products would actually qualify as nutritious by objective measures. […]

The collaboration aims to advance agricultural resilience and crop-based carbon removal using AI technologies. Read more: Oracle and Wild Bio collab to advance AI-powered agriculture

Some Samsung Bespoke AI refrigerator owners in South Korea say an official SmartThings update caused cooling failures and other problems before Chuseok, prompting an emergency recovery operation.

Soils harbor some of the most diverse life on Earth. Soil nematodes play crucial roles in maintaining ecosystem functions. Yet how their diversity changes across large landscapes, and what drives those changes, remains poorly understood.

Rice feeds more than half of humanity, yet it is famously a child of the tropics. When cold snaps strike young seedlings in high-latitude or high-altitude paddies, entire harvests can be stunted before they ever begin. Now a team of Chinese researchers has pinpointed a single gene that helps rice seedlings shrug off chilling temperatures, […]

A sprawling new review published in Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials argues that one of the least glamorous corners of materials science—metal-organic framework and polymer hybrids, or MOF/polymer hybrids—may quietly reshape nearly every link in the modern food chain, from the pesticide droplet that lands on a leaf to the plastic film that wraps a […]

Across the United States, the farming population is aging out of agriculture faster than new growers are arriving, and many of the newcomers stepping into the gap have no farming parents, no inherited land, and no generational playbook to fall back on. A new study published in Discover Agriculture examines a small but strategically important […]

In the flooded paddies of Qianjiang, in China’s Hubei Province, farmers have long paired two very different crops: rice above the water and red swamp crayfish below it. A new 13-month field study published in Advanced Biotechnology now reveals just how deeply this ancient pairing rewires the invisible world beneath the mud. By tracking soil […]

Biochar has been heralded as one of agriculture’s most seductive fixes: a charcoal-like material that locks carbon into the ground for centuries, buoys soil fertility, and echoes the legendary Amazonian Terra Preta soils that sustained ancient civilizations. But a three-year field experiment on a Kentucky silt loam, published in Discover Soil, delivers a sobering and […]

Modern agriculture has quietly become one of the most data-intensive industries on the planet. Fields dotted with soil sensors, drones overhead, automated irrigation lines, and networked greenhouses generate continuous streams of telemetry that must be routed to cloud servers, analyzed, and turned into decisions within seconds. As farms scale up their digital infrastructure, the plumbing […]

Beneath every flooded rice paddy lies an architecture most people never think about: a three-dimensional labyrinth of soil crumbs, ranging from grit-like microaggregates to chunky clumps visible to the naked eye. How those crumbs are sized, how tightly they hold together, and how much organic carbon they trap inside their pores may sound like arcane […]

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Deep in the semiarid backlands of northeastern Brazil, where cracked soils and scorching temperatures test the limits of plant life, an invisible treasure is being unearthed from the roots of wild peanut relatives. A team of Brazilian researchers has cataloged a strikingly diverse community of Bradyrhizobium bacteria living in the root nodules of three wild […]