10 tips for managing continuous corn
AGDAILY Contributors ·
May 14, 2020
With a well-thought-out management plan, continuous corn can pay dividends — but you need to know what you’re up against.
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Flooding stunted 2019 cropland growing season, resulting in more atmospheric CO2
AGDAILY Reporters ·
April 2, 2020
Severe flooding in 2019 — triggering a delayed growing season — led to a reduction of 100 million metric tons of net carbon uptake during June and July.
In review: Top 20 agricultural moments of the 2010s decade
Markie Hageman ·
January 31, 2020
From the tech boom of social media, apps, and imaging to the mergers between brands and large-scale lawsuits, these agriculture moments impacted 2010-2019.
Research shows the shutdown of coal-fired plants improves crop yields
AGDAILY Reporters ·
January 7, 2020
The decommissioning of coal-fired power plants has reduced nearby pollution and its negative impacts on health and crop yields, according to a new study.
At the molecular level: More work with food crops to withstand climate change
AGDAILY Reporters ·
December 4, 2019
Success with improving a plant’s response to harsh conditions is leading plant molecular researchers to move to food crops including wheat and rice.
Perspective: Commodity enemy #1 is pest resistance
Tim Durham, Plant M.D. ·
September 26, 2019
When a farmer uses a pesticide against a pest, weed, or pathogen, s/he is essentially conducting a field-scale micro-evolution project.
Research: Global crop-disease surveillance is needed
AGDAILY Reporters ·
June 27, 2019
In the same manner that nations collaborate to detect and stop human pandemics, a global surveillance system for crop diseases needs to be created to safeguard agricultural trade and food security, argues a team of experts in Science More than 20 percent of the five staple crops that provide half the globe’s caloric intake […]
Perspective: Do hydroponics dilute the organic label?
Tim Durham, Plant M.D. ·
May 29, 2019
I just hit a milestone: my 30th anniversary as a lettuce grower [raucous applause?]. First as a young tyke at the family farm, and later in the wondrous, climate controlled college greenhouse. The latter was hydroponic, far removed from my conventional rearing. Fortunately, the experience I had amassed in the field was easily “convertible” into […]
New research explores the origins of the apple
AGDAILY Reporters ·
May 27, 2019
While apples that originally evolved in the wild needed to entice megafauna to disperse their seeds, humans ultimately took over that task, spreading the trees along the famous Silk Road along with other familiar crops. This dispersing of the apple seeds ultimately led to the trees’ domestication. All of this is laid out in a […]
Just how much does enhancing photosynthesis improve crop yield?
AGDAILY Reporters ·
April 9, 2019
A team of scientists out of Australia have a dynamic model that predicts which photosynthetic manipulations will boost the crop yield of wheat and sorghum.