article thumbnail

Brainfood: Biodiversity nexus, Nutrition interventions, European land suitability, Beyond yield, Cover crops, CWR breeding, Rice gaps, Banana info system

Agricultural Biodiversity

Beyond yield and toward sustainability: Using applied ecology to support biodiversity conservation and food production. Global synthesis of cover crop impacts on main crop yield. Cover crops are good for yield. But didn’t we just say we should go beyond yield? But didn’t we just say we should go beyond yield?

Yield 214
article thumbnail

Edible Bean School: Weed control wisdom with Peter Sikkema

Real Agriculture

Weeds can cause up to 58 per cent yield loss in edible beans compared to 50 per cent in corn and 35 in soybeans. 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. Read More

Science 293
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

A new tool joins the fight against corn rootworm

Real Agriculture

Pests, such as corn rootworm, continue to evolve and so does the technology required to control these these yield-robbing insects. 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. Read More

Science 236
article thumbnail

Rescuing Kelp Through Science

Civil Eats

Seaweed farms on both coasts are beginning to take hold, tapping into decades of painstaking science—and could help shellfish thrive in waters affected by climate change and pollution. The yield is an average of 4 pounds of mature kelp per foot, which nets about 50 cents a pound, according to Lindell. “I 2 is yield.

Science 143
article thumbnail

CropLife argues case for plant protection products

Farmers Weekly

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.

article thumbnail

Brainfood: Andean chefs, Tricot, Enset ploidy, Minor livestock, NUS meals, Cocoyam breeding, Millets in India, Brazilian fruits, Indian fruits

Agricultural Biodiversity

Citizen science informs demand-driven breeding of opportunity crops. Recurrent evolution of cryptic triploids in cultivated enset increases yield. Grains of Wisdom: Insights into the Minds of Top ChefsA Synthesis of Expert Interviews and Literature. A good chef can make even quinoa palatable.

Livestock 134
article thumbnail

New process vaporizes plastic bags and bottles, yielding gases to make new, recycled plastics

Berkeley Blog

The catalytic process, discovered by researchers at UC Berkeley, efficiently reduces polymers to chemical precursors, bringing a circular economy for plastics one step closer to reality The post New process vaporizes plastic bags and bottles, yielding gases to make new, recycled plastics appeared first on Berkeley News.