NASDA

MARCH 4, 2025

For Plant Agriculture & Pesticide Regulations, this means a commitment to science-based, transparent, and enforceable regulations. How does NASS data on chemical and fertilizer use help NASDA shape policies on pesticide regulations?

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Rural Development Ruralism Pesticide Grain 130

Cropaia

MARCH 28, 2025

Precision agriculture has enabled unprecedented fine-tuning of crop management from variable-rate fertilization to micro-zone irrigation. This phenomenon is comparable to overfitting in data science, where a model becomes so tailored to the data that it ends up responding to noise rather than meaningful patterns.

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Agriculture Agriculture Yield Fertilizer 60

Agwired

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Keyman brings to the company more than 40 years of leading expertise in the global fertilizer industry. “I I have known Melih for several years and he is one of the most admired leaders in the global fertilizer industry, with significant experience in the broader ag industry as well,” said Pivot Bio CEO Chris Abbott.

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Fertilizer Technology Science Marketing 45

The Equation

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Woods brings decades of experience in the application of spatial data science to her work studying the environmental and health impacts of the US food and agriculture system. While development, forestry, and climate change all contribute to wetland loss, draining for agriculture has been the single biggest cause since the 1800s.

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Pesticide Agriculture Agriculture Industrial Agriculture 84

World Agri-Tech

MARCH 10, 2025

Less than 10% of pesticides and 33% of critical fertilizers used in farms actively contribute to crop protection and yield. In the United States alone, farmers apply $16 billion worth of pesticides and more than $30 billion in fertilizers annually, yet the ag-industry lacks critical insight on where all this value ends up.

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Agriculture Agriculture Supply Chain Pesticide 52

Food Tank

MARCH 19, 2025

Banana Capital: Stories, Science, and Poison at the Equator by Ben Brisbois The city of Machala, Ecuador describes itself as the banana capital of the world. She frames Celiac as an often-invisible disability, and disability itself as a social and political issue that cannot be addressed through science alone.

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Food Plantation Farming Farming 120

The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 18, 2024

There will be enormous destruction of value for those involved in rearing animals and processing them, and for all the industries that support and supply the sector (fertilizers, machinery, veterinary services, and more). Other livestock markets such as chicken, pig, and fish will follow a similar trajectory.

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Science Production Food Cattle 84

AgriLife Today

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Biological nitrification inhibition trait in sorghum may allow reduced fertilizer use and greenhouse gas emissions The post Texas A&M AgriLife researchers identify novel approach to minimize nitrogen loss in crops appeared first on AgriLife Today.

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Greenhouse Crop Fertilizer Science 131

Farmbrite

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Soil Health : Advanced soil sensors can measure critical factors like moisture levels, pH balance, and nutrient content, enabling farmers to fine-tune fertilizer use. Farmers saving 30% on fertilizer costs and boosting crop yields by up to 10% are not uncommon with these insights. But how do you learn about this new technology?

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Farming Farming Technology Yield 96

Agwired

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Sustainable agriculture company Pivot Bio presented abstracts on its breakthrough crop nutrition technologies at the 2023 International Annual Meeting of the American Society of Agronomy (ASA), the Crop Science Society of America (CSSA), and the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA).

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Technology Soil Science Science Mechanics 119

AgriLife Today

MARCH 11, 2024

Will feature turfgrass best management practices, pesticide and fertilizer application calculation workshop The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service will offer a turfgrass management program for local landscape professionals on March 22 in New Braunfels.

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Pesticide Fertilizer Science Crop 95

UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

By Kyle Richardville Understanding Ag, LLC About the Understanding series Agriculture isnt rocket science. Anything with a positive charge is called a cation in science-speak. 2 Nitrogen Source Fertilizer Analysis (N-P-K) Lime Required (lb CaCO 3 /lb N) Anhydrous ammonia 82-0-0 1.8 Its much more complex than that. Urea 46-0-0 1.8

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Fertilizer Distribution Processing Pasture 84

ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In this episode of Voices from the Field , NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist Nina Prater and her husband, Jeremy Prater – a cattle and meat goat farmer – explore the science and history of potassium. They then share different ways to manage soils sustainably and require less off-farm potassium fertilizer.

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Fertilizer Pasture Science Cattle 81

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

This translates to healthier food and a healthier environment and reduces reliance on synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. For instance, farmers in the Southern region face acidic, low-fertility soils, intense weed, pest, and disease pressures, along with marketing and infrastructure constraints. Managing weeds, diseases, and pests.

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Food Seeding Crop Poultry 106

AgriLife Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Faculty, students earn national titles, awards The post Texas A&M Department of Soil and Crop Sciences expertise recognized at international conference appeared first on AgriLife Today.

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Science Crop Fertilizer Grain 59

World Agri-Tech

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Bayer Crop Science provided $4,601,244 in matching funds, and Iowa State University, K-State, LandScan, LI-COR Environmental, Mississippi State University, The Ohio State University and The University of Kansas also provided funds for a total investment of $16,362,948. We’re very pleased to welcome Kansas State as a partner.

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Science Crop Crop Yield Crop Rotation 52

Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

1) Agrochemical production consumes fossil fuels to generate pesticides, fertilizers, and other inputs. ” In addition, pesticides and fertilizers are derived from fossil fuels. American agriculture is awash in a mix of both, as farms use about a billion pounds of pesticides and 21 million tons of synthetic fertilizer every year.

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Pesticide Fertilizer Industrial Agriculture Food 143

The Equation

MAY 11, 2023

Coupled with excessive use of fertilizer , which has increased dramatically over the last four decades, this creates major water-quality problems, as the fertilizer runs off into waterways and leaches into groundwater. Fertilizer runoff can also affect urban communities downstream. All the time.

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Agriculture Agriculture Fertilizer Plowing 131

AgriLife Today

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The workshop is a collaboration of the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Department of Animal Science and Department. Award-winning program limited to first 50 enrolled The award-winning Ranch Management University, scheduled Oct.

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Ranching Science Crop Agriculture 111

Food Tank

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

We can no longer clear all the trees, cannot allow our soils to degrade, cannot fertilize without care.” Add These to Your Calendar: 9:00AM–10:00AM @ the IICA Pavilion: “Science & AgTech” daily morning coffee series, with food/agriculture ministers and experts. We can no longer take food for granted.

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Finance Food Agroecology Agriculture 97

World Agri-Tech

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The companys commitment to cutting-edge science, building a world class team, and innovative business models has driven tremendous value for growers. Efficient Acre Incentive: Sounds groundbreaking program eliminates the financial risk for growers interested in using SOURCE to replace synthetic fertilizer.

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Agriculture Agriculture Acre Crop 52

Cropin Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2023

The fertile ground of technological advancement holds the key to meeting the escalating demand for sustainable and efficient food management practices. Crop yield prediction is the cornerstone of food value chain management and, therefore, critical for the agri-industry at large. Accurate yield predictions enable:

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Crop Yield Yield Crop Science 52

ATTRA

JULY 9, 2024

Researchers from Johns Hopkins University published a study in Environmental Science & Technology that lists potentially hazardous organic chemicals commonly found in biosolids.

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Manufacturing Fertilizer Science Technology 75

ATTRA

DECEMBER 30, 2024

A recent study by scientists at the University of Florida sheds light on how soil and nutrient management practices significantly influence the productivity and quality of leafy green crops grown in high tunnel organic systems, reports the American Society for Horticultural Science.

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Crop Yield Fertilizer Science Crop 75

Civil Eats

JUNE 27, 2024

Wild seaweeds had been harvested for centuries by Indigenous peoples on both coasts, for a range of uses including insulation, medication, and fertilizer. Later, seaweeds were then harvested from the wild for agricultural fertilizers and the cosmetics industry. Can Seaweed Save American Shellfish? What’s driving this growth?

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Farming Farming Textiles Fertilizer 139

AgriLife Today

MARCH 27, 2024

The workshop is a collaboration of the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Department of Animal. Read More → The post Next Texas A&M ranch management school offered April 8-12 appeared first on AgriLife Today.

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Ranching Science Crop Agriculture 98

NASDA

JULY 10, 2023

EPA’s newly published regulation creating “PIPs created through genetic engineering from a sexually compatible plant” and “loss-of-function PIPs” is not risk-based, science-based and focuses on process of development rather than product. We ask that Congress take the necessary steps to ensure that U.S. Apple Association U.S.

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Seeding Crop Minor Crop Science 130

NASDA

AUGUST 1, 2024

Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry U.S. House Committee on Agriculture U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure U.S.

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Supply Chain Grain Aquaculture Forestry 130

Sustainable Food Trust

APRIL 1, 2025

As managers of over half the continents land, Australian graziers are incredibly important stewards of the countrys biodiversity, along with numerous other public goods including carbon stores, flood mitigation services, soil fertility and water quality.

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Livestock Production Pasture Farming 102

AgriLife Today

JANUARY 24, 2025

New plant technologies could reduce fertilizer levels, costs for producers The post AgriLife Research team to develop nitrogen-saving sorghum hybrids with DOE support appeared first on AgriLife Today.

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Fertilizer Technology Science Ranching 88

NASDA

MARCH 18, 2024

Since the agencies have been inundated with compliance obligations, we are concerned that in recent years program priorities, especially at EPA, have gravitated towards dispensing with growing workloads via broad, overly conservative actions at the cost of developing careful decisions rooted in the best available science and evidence.

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Pesticide Science Agriculture Agriculture 130

The Equation

JUNE 13, 2023

Human activities can alter the distribution and abundance of soil microorganisms, especially by changing how food is grown: for example, by changing the quantities of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides used, or by growing the same crops on the same fields year after year.

Food 131

Food Production Farming Farming 131

Modern Farmer

JUNE 27, 2024

Sam Rudman, one of the first-year farmers of Friends Farm in Lafayette, Colorado, says covering a field with fertilizer shortly before 60-miles-per-hour winds started up was definitely one of his many “rookie mistakes” as a new farmer. But the Friends Farm team isn’t counting on luck alone.

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Grain Farming Farming Food 135

Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 28, 2024

They learn about composting in STEAM classes and how to use it to fertilize their gardens and help feed the school’s chickens. First- and third-graders have improved their skillsets in science and math so much, the county revised its middle school curriculum to accommodate their new abilities. “I

Food 108

Food Compost Straw Fertilizer 108

ATTRA

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

After periods of trial and error, they saw economic gains as they reduced purchases of fertilizer and hay and saw labor decreasing as livestock became familiar with rotations. Many found that their initial fears about up-front cost and labor were exaggerated.

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Livestock Pasture Agriculture Agriculture 52

Food Tank

JULY 26, 2024

Unlike vast swaths of Pacific and Indian Ocean where global treaties are lacking, enforcement is sparse, science is always playing catch-up and ‘dark fleets’ perpetrate illegal fishing and human rights abuses, the Bering Sea is a global model for how fish, fishermen and communities can all thrive. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S.

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Arable Land Food Production Processing 127

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

One of the areas of opportunity was fertilizer optimization. fertilizer itself, if it’s synthetic, it’s a petrochemical. And if fertilizer is not taken up by the plant, [nitrous oxide] gets into the atmosphere , and it has more global warming potential [compared to carbon dioxide]. That would be great.

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Supply Chain Fertilizer Greenhouse Food 139