SCIENCE
Scientific developments in the agricultural sector
Farming for Our Future: Climate-Neutral Agriculture in the United States and Beyond
The realities of climate change — including more frequent floods, droughts, wildfires, heat waves, and more — are becoming ever...
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Pomelos found to be a great natural insecticide
In the U.S., winter is the start of a lot of things: snow, the holiday season, and – for those...
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An organic compound found in chrysanthemums can control the rosy apple aphid
A study published in Biological Agriculture & Horticulture tells of how pyrethrins, natural compounds found in chrysanthemums, effectively kill rosy...
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Researchers say that purple corn is a natural aphrodisiac
Aphrodisiacs have been part of human civilization since time immemorial, but it is only with today’s scientific methods that their...
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Linking Ag, Nutrition, and Health
The science of nutrition can be said to have any number of starting points: Wilbur O. Atwater’s 1869 analysis of...
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After 13 Years,Scientists Finally Map The Massive Wheat Genome
IN A FIELD at the edge of the University of Minnesota’s St. Paul campus, half a dozen students and lab...
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