Agricultural Biodiversity

MAY 3, 2024

Benjamin Nowak, a “French lecturer in agronomy with teaching and research activities focused on soil sciences and remote sensing for crop monitoring” has a nice infographic showing “ what a large farm would look like, growing all the world’s crops.” ” Pretty cool. But where’s all the ganja?

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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

NASDA

JUNE 22, 2023

Letter Dear Chairs and Ranking Members, As organizations concerned about the future of food and agricultural science, the undersigned are writing to express our support for the America Grows Act of 2023 (S.1628), food and agricultural sector which threaten our affordable, safe food supply, farmers’ livelihoods and national security.

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Science Agriculture Agriculture Food 130

World Agri-Tech

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Assumes average corn yields in the 1920s of roughly 26 bu/A (according to the Plant & Soil Sciences eLibrary at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln ) and average corn yield in 2023 of roughly 183 bu/A (according to USDA data ) and yields on Pioneer corn hybrids commonly reaching 200 bu/A and more.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Add These to Your Calendar: 9:00AM–10:00AM @ the IICA Pavilion: “Science & AgTech” daily morning coffee series, with food/agriculture ministers and experts. Powerful Quotes From Recent Discussions “The soil health in a place determines the health of the people that live there. The soil health is a perfect mirror of the people.

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Finance Food Agroecology Agriculture 97

USDA Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Felipe Aburto is an assistant professor at Texas A&M University, where he focuses on soil science and its impact on agriculture and the environment. These fields are essential in addressing todays agricultural challenges, particularly the need for increased diversity and awareness of soil science among students.

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Real Agriculture

DECEMBER 5, 2024

December 5, the international day to celebrate soil, was first recommended by the International Union of Soil Sciences in 2002. This year, the theme is ‘Caring for soils: measure, monitor, manage.’

Soil Science 301

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 6, 2023

“He said, ‘I’ll help you with school, but my one stipulation is that you cannot take any animal science classes. Be a poet, do whatever, just no animal science.’ It had been such a bad run of finances that he said to just get out,” says Wahl.

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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

For me, well, I was taking an introductory soil science class in a two-year horticulture degree program at Farmingdale State College on Long Island, NY. In that soil science class, I learned all about soil horizons, particle size ranges that comprise sand, loam, and clay, pH, N,P,K, and the fact soil compaction inhibits plant growth.

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Soil Science Science Soil Compaction Pesticide 93

Modern Farmer

JUNE 27, 2024

The three team members—Rudman, Oliver Aurand and Kevin Reiss, who met in 2023 on a nearby farm—bring backgrounds in soil science, anthropology and just over a decade of combined field hand experience. But the Friends Farm team isn’t counting on luck alone.

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Grain Farming Farming Food 135

Agwired

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Below’s lab is an opportunity to ground-truth the benefits of biodigesters, understand how technologies like Residuce can enable more sustainable and profitable cropping practices and to develop best practice use recommendations supporting our retail and channel partners with high-value, science-verified cropping solutions,” said Alex Cochran, Ph.D.,

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ATTRA

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Laying to rest the concept of humus and instead embracing the diversity that actually exists in the soil opens up so much scope for exploration and understanding. This is an exciting time in the world of soil science, with new technologies making research possible that never was before.

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Soil Science Rural Development Technology Science 80

Agwired

JANUARY 8, 2024

Camp Hand, University of Georgia assistant professor in Crop & Soil Sciences, received this annual award for his leadership, dedication and exceptional service in developing and conducting educational programs to meet the needs of cotton producers and the U.S. cotton industry.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Without well-nourished soil, “the global issues of climate change and food security cannot be addressed,” says soil scientist Dr. Rattan Lal. He’s the recipient of the World Food Prize and a Distinguished University Professor of Soil Science at The Ohio State University.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Joel Gruver, a professor of soil science and sustainable agriculture at Western Illinois University in Macomb, Illinois, has been chosen to receive the 2024 Sustainable Agriculture Achievement Award from Practical Farmers of Iowa.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 1, 2023

The USDA Plan to Better Measure Agriculture’s Impact on the Climate Crisis In this week’s Field Report, news on the agency’s latest effort to invest in soil science and correct discrimination, plus reports on global hunger and pesticides’ impacts on birds.

Food 98

Food Seeding Crop Farming 98

Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

(Photo courtesy Schreiner) “We have created a template for a tribal farm, which operates very differently than a standard non-Native farm,” explains Schreiner, who has a background in natural resource management, soil science, and water conservation. “We

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Food Agriculture Agriculture Seeding 145

Farmbrite

MARCH 2, 2023

Agricultural engineers must be skilled in soil science, physics and chemistry as well as computer modeling techniques. Agricultural Scientists and Researchers If science was your best subject in school and you have a passion for agriculture, a career as an agricultural scientist or researcher might be right for you.

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Soil health specialist Catie Geib has joined the Conservation Technology Information Center (CTIC), a 41-year-old conservation agriculture non-profit, to provide technical support to Wisconsin farmers under the Farmers for Soil Health (FSH) program.

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Tractor Seeding Soil Science Agriculture 59

NASDA

JULY 25, 2024

Sincerely, AgCountry Farm Credit Services AgCredit, ACA AgGeorgia Farm Credit AgriBank, FCB AgriBusiness Association of Kentucky Agribusiness Council of Indiana Agricultural Leaders of Michigan Agricultural Retailers Association Agriculture Energy Coalition Agri-Mark, Inc.

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Farming Farming Seeding Ruralism 130

Share Food Program

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Agroecology: Understanding Sustainable Plant & Soil Science; and 4. In the spirit of back-to-school, we’ll be sharing Nice Roots’ Farm-to-School curriculum in a series of four lessons: 1. Food Justice, Land Sovereignty and Deconstructing the Food System; 2. Growing Food from Seed to Harvest; 3.

Food 52

Food Farming Farming Soil Science 52

World Agri-Tech

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Rigorous science is still our main priority to ensure we’re developing the best possible products for growers in terms of sustainability and economics.” Over 2023, we’ve been showing our data on our spectral probe to customers and we presented the data at the Soil Science Society of America’s annual meeting in St.

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Sustainable Harvest International

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

“ “My philosophy has always been that the health of soil, plants, animals, people, and the environment is one.” ” — Rattan Lal, professor of soil science + 2020 World Food Prize Laureate Conventional, or industrial, agriculture uses chemicals to defend crops from weeds, certain insect species, and diseases.

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Compost Fertilizer Crop Food 59

Caff

MARCH 28, 2022

CAFF does that for farmers– it sees and describes trends in soil science and productivity, it helps farms find new sales outlets, it makes the importance of both food safety and food security prominent in its work, and it provides financial assistance to small family farms.

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Farming Farming Food Soil Science 52

Agriculture for Life

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry (TNAU, Coimbatore INDIA) Hi, this is Dr. Marco Thiruselvam with Green Wave Products and I am going to talk about growing tips with AgriPOWER HGDF. Marco Thiruselvam B.M.E. University Malaya, Malaysia); BMM (JAMA, Japan); Ph.D.,

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Our hope is that as we work together, and your role evolves over time, we can adjust your job description accordingly.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

OCTOBER 24, 2024

We are all more from science,” she says in her German-accented English. The Streys had studied geography and soil science at Leibniz University Hannover in Germany. But she and her team of coders, anthropologists, botanists, and plant pathologists had struck on something unique. Something potentially very big.

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Pesticide Crop Agriculture Agriculture 86

Modern Farmer

MAY 23, 2024

Mingchu Zhang, professor of soil science and agronomy at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, cautions in an email about infectious organisms in dog poop that might survive composting. “That is perhaps why most cities prohibit it.”

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In this 2023 Holiday Book Guide, you’ll find reviews of memoirs, personal essays, histories, science writing, journalism, cookbooks, guidebooks, and photo collections—written by our editors, staff writers, and freelance contributors. In addition to our top picks for holiday giving, you’ll find a roundup of our recent book coverage.

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RR2CS

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

They have a very advanced group of people working on soil science,” he says. His personal research focus led him to several countries in South America, including Argentina, Chile, and Brazil, to visit with and learn from a network of farmers practicing no-till agriculture.

Farming 52

Farming Farming Crop Manure 52

Modern Farmer

MARCH 16, 2025

Tomandls cows spend their days rotating between different pastures of perennial grasses, an approach that greatly reduces his feed costs while also building organic matter in the soil to help fight climate change. full_link READ MORE Why are restaurants selling beef from dairy cows? Photography via Shutterstock.

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