Vogt saw modern agricultural methods as an environmental disaster, while Borlaug saw an opportunity to preserve land by doing more on less.
Though constantly under threat from environmentalists, supporters of the four lower Snake River dams have successfully countered efforts to breach the dams.
Volunteer wheat obviously competes with a seeded crop for nutrients and moisture, but since they contribute to yield, is the competition serious?
A hydrogen powered economy includes building fuel cells and electrolyzers for all kinds of applications around the world.
If we can engineer plants to make at least some of their nitrogen perhaps, we can use renewable energy sources to make the rest through electrolysis.
In a similar way that the first COVID vaccines were made, agrobiotech companies are working on vaccines for plants and pesticides based on RNA molecules.
With the incoming Biden administration, there are a few points on agriculture’s impact on emissions (including methane and cattle) that should be stated.
Research suggests that monoculture is not the soil-killing practice pundits say it is and any negative effects can be quite quickly reversed.
In the modern era, scientists have harnessed the mechanism (CRISPR) developed by bacteria to defend against invading viruses by chopping them up.
Research on feed additives that suppress methanogens has been, and is, prolific — it’s an effort to improve cattle’s overall feed conversion efficiency.