Real Agriculture

MAY 13, 2024

Are crops really inefficient at taking up nitrogen? Actually, no — crops take up and store N in grain and also in stalks, stems, leaves, and roots, which can sometimes be overlooked in nitrogen removal calculations, leading some to think that there is more N “lost” than is actually so. But if crops are pretty.

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Real Agriculture

JULY 30, 2023

The University of Guelph’s weeds team were big winners at the Weed Science Society of America’s National Weed Science Contest in Union City, Tennessee this past week The 17-member team of graduate and undergraduate students have been preparing for months to test their weed ID, herbicide symptomology, sprayer calibration and farmer problem (..)

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 5, 2023

On this show, host Shaun Haney is joined by: Steve Pratte, senior manager, transportation and biofuel policy with the Canadian Canola Growers Association, on Transport Canada’s upcoming railway policy review; Erin Gowriluk, president of Canada Grains Council, on the importance of science-based policy; and, Alanna Koch, Read More It’s time (..)

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Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

A cash crop farmer who runs a self-described “small to mid-sized” operation in southwestern Ontario, he also works as a market development manager for Bayer Crop Science. Adam Pfeffer has put a lot of thought into the new shop he’s just finished at his farm at Sparta, Ont. Read More

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Agricultural Biodiversity

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Let the Norwegian University of Life Sciences show you how. So does the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Want to grow perennial crops for the Land Institute? Do you want to describe and analyze seed systems? Do you think there should be a, well, systemic approach to the food system? Hope they include seed systems.

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Real Agriculture

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Thanks for tuning in to this Wednesday edition of RealAg Radio brought to you by Bayer Crop Science and Huskie PRE herbicide.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

I was going to include the paper Adoption of improved crop varieties limited biodiversity losses, terrestrial carbon emissions, and cropland expansion in the tropics in a forthcoming Brainfood, and I may still do so, if I can think of a pithy way to summarize its import in a sentence. Is that a lot? Hard to know. million hectares.

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Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

At Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show earlier this month, Bayer Crop Science launched SmartStax Pro with RNAi technology, a new mode of action to help defend corn plants against the pest. David Kikkert, Bayer Crop Science’s. David Kikkert, Bayer Crop Science’s. Read More

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AgriLife Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Faculty, students bring home national titles, awards, scholarships A number of faculty and students from the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Department of Soil and Crop Sciences recently received recognition at the Tri-Societies international annual meeting in St.

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AgWeb Farm Journal

MARCH 20, 2024

After launching an initial “frontrunner” a group in Illinois, Bayer says its Crop Science division is ready to roll out the company’s new operating model, Dynamic Shared Ownership (as it’s known internally, DSO).

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NASDA

MARCH 25, 2025

The propagation of these labels not only risks disrupting commerce, but it could also confuse pesticide users and erode public confidence in science- and risk-based regulation. Rulemaking would significantly help to resolve these challenges, which otherwise are only likely to intensify.

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 27, 2024

For Dr. Bruce Coulman, his journey into plant breeding started when he was working in the Crop Science Department at the University of Saskatchewan back in high school. For Dr. Bruce Coulman, his journey into plant breeding started when he was working in the Crop Science Department at the University of Saskatchewan back in high school.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

JUNE 2, 2024

Europe has run out of land usable for crops, but some currently used land is being used for the wrong crops. Global synthesis of cover crop impacts on main crop yield. Global synthesis of cover crop impacts on main crop yield. Cover crops are good for yield. using online resources and citizen science.

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The pressure on continued acceptance of agriculture technology tools such as herbicides and breeding techniques has ripple effects here in Canada, from at home and abroad. The September ruling by the EU to maintain registration of glyphosate for 10 more years seems a positive move, but the fact that glyphosate was on the chopping block.

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Farmers Weekly

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Farmers Weekly Mycorrhizal fungi play a valuable role in maximising crop performance, and a team of researchers is on a mission to delve deeper into the world of mycorrhizas to explore how fungal populations can promote crop production.

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AgriLife Today

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Read More → The post New AgriLife Extension small grains specialist returns to Department of Soil and Crop Sciences first appeared on AgriLife Today. The post New AgriLife Extension small grains specialist returns to Department of Soil and Crop Sciences appeared first on AgriLife Today.

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NASDA

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

These vital programs operate in all fifty states and a failure to fund them in a farm bill or farm bill extension in 2024 negatively impacts countless farmers, ranchers, and food system stakeholders.

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Agric4profits

MARCH 14, 2025

Wildlife management is the art of making land produce sustained annual crops of wild game for food and recreational purposes. It is the science and art of transforming the attributes and interactions of habitats, wild animal populations, and humans to achieve specific human goals through wildlife resources.

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Agric4profits

MARCH 5, 2025

Agriculture is regarded as the art and science of cultivating crops, raising livestock, provision of raw materials for agro-allied industries, and marketing of agricultural produce for mans use.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

MAY 3, 2024

The paper “ Forgotten food crops in sub-Saharan Africa for healthy diets in a changing climate ” by Maarten van Zonneveld, Roeland Kindt, Stepha McMullin, Enoch G. Dawson has won the PNAS 2023 Cozzarelli Prize for the best paper of the year in Applied Biological, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences.

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Agric4profits

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Crop improvement is a crucial aspect of agricultural science that aims to enhance the quality and yield of crops. As the global population continues to rise, th

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Global Ag Tech

JUNE 28, 2023

The agencies intend to explore opportunities to improve crop performance to meet Earth and space-based goals. The post USDA, NASA Strengthen Collaboration to Advance Exploration, Science appeared first on Global Ag Tech Initiative.

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USDA Blog

MARCH 27, 2024

Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientist Sheri Spiegal received an exciting award recognizing her pioneering work integrating social science and biophysical science with stakeholder engagement to help animal producers and crop farmers improve the redistribution of manure nutrients from farms with an excess to fields and pastures that can use it sustainably. (..)

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AgriLife Today

JULY 23, 2024

Horticultural research and outreach spur economic, environmental sustainability in South Texas and beyond The post Innovative science drives Rio Grande Valley horticultural success appeared first on AgriLife Today.

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Caff

APRIL 15, 2024

These collaborations have provided snapshots of how practices like compost, cover crops, livestock integration and reduced tillage (to name a few) can impact soil health on a given farm in a given region. Click here to view or download Understanding the Science Behind Climate Smart Agriculture in California or find it below.

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Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Corn growers in eastern Canada have a new tool in their pest management toolbox with the registration of VT4PRO with RNAi technology from Bayer Crop Science. Read More Corn growers in eastern Canada have a new tool in their pest management toolbox with the registration of VT4PRO with RNAi technology from Bayer Crop Science.

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 20, 2023

That’s just one brick in a wall of weed control insights University of Guelph weed science researcher Dr. Peter Sikkema has accumulated over a 30-year career that includes induction into the. That’s just one brick in a wall of weed control insights University of Guelph weed science researcher Dr.

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Farmers Weekly

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Farmers Weekly A new report calls for a rethink of “overly restrictive” regulation of plant protection products (PPPs) inherited from the EU amid a warning that higher crop yields critical to UK food security won’t be achieved without synthetic pesticides.

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The Equation

MARCH 28, 2023

The ARA is comprehensive, science-based legislation that covers many topics related to environmental and climate concerns in agriculture, including conservation on both agricultural and pasture land, renewable energy, and food loss and waste. The Agriculture Resilience Act (ARA) of 2023 was re-introduced in Congress today.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 3, 2025

The journal Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment published research from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, highlighting the soil health benefits of a “living mulch” cover crop actively growing between rows of corn.

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Real Agriculture

APRIL 24, 2024

Agriculture is the art of applying the science — this is definitely the case when it comes to figuring out how few tillage passages are enough and if the quest for zero is actually the goal. As part of this week’s edition of Wheat Pete’s Word, host Peter Johnson discusses the importance of no-till and.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 6, 2025

Scientists at the German University of Gttingen published an article in Trends in Plant Science that highlights the roles that pollinator behavior and plant species distribution play in fruit quality.

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AgriLife Today

JANUARY 30, 2025

Texas A&M AgriLife coursework teaches vineyard and winemaking expertise to professionals and enthusiasts alike The post New wine science and viticulture certificate program now available online appeared first on AgriLife Today.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 22, 2024

Its 2,800 acres—the first protected habitat for the wild relatives of crops in the United States—now shelter not just a single pepper but at least 45 different species. Forest Service to identify and collect other wild relatives of crops in this area. In the U.S. Arizona is the third driest state in the U.S.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

MARCH 19, 2024

Every once in a while I get the urge to remind everyone where they can get information on training courses in crop diversity conservation, and indeed training materials. So, anyway, of course there’s the Plant Treaty. A couple of online courses are available, on the Treaty itself and on Farmers’ Rights.

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NASDA

MARCH 8, 2024

General Comments NASDA sopports USDA’s efforts to enhance the competitiveness of specialty crops through a suite of administrative and statutory programs – collectively referred to as the SCCI. NASDA believes the SCBG program must be flexible and state-driven in order to be nimble, locally responsive, and efficient.

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Real Agriculture

AUGUST 9, 2023

In weed science terms, this ability of different active ingredients to team up and deliver a knockout blow is called herbicide synergy. In weed science terms, this ability of different active ingredients to team up and deliver a knockout blow is called herbicide synergy. On this episode of the RealAgriculture Soybean. Read More

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