Operated by the Midwestern Regional Climate Cente, the Freeze Date Tool is a publicly accessible zone map that pinpoints temperature changes for growers.
A new genetic vulnerability to tolpyralate herbicide in 49 varieties of corn, marks the first report of weed control posing a danger to the staple crop.
Studies suggest using winter rye cover crops between corn and soybeans prevents nitrate losses, sequester carbon, and provides renewable natural gas.
A gene discovered by a scientific team from the Agricultural Research Service and Purdue University could help fortify the defenses of sorghum to anthracnose, a disease of the cereal grain crop that can inflict yield losses of up to 50 percent.
Agricultural Research Service scientists and their Chinese colleagues have identified a specific metabolic pathway that controls how honey bees apportion their body’s resources, like energy and immune response in reaction to stresses such as winter’s cold temperatures, according to recently published research.
The first complete genome of the Asian giant hornet has been released by a team of Agricultural Research Service scientists.