Pollinator declines are a global concern, and agriculture sits at the center of the challenge. As farms grow more efficient and landscapes become increasingly simplified, bees, butterflies and other pollinators are losing the varied habitats they depend on. One widely promoted solution is pl…
New research at Kansas State University aims to tackle one of the most significant threats to global animal health and food security — highly pathogenic avian influenza, or HPAI — by using mealworms, a supplement of poultry feed, as a vaccine-delivery method.
In 1971, Hank and Maren Mitchell purchased farmland perched along the Crow Wing River in Verndale, Minnesota. Like many aspiring farmers before them, they envisioned raising a family, becoming self-sufficient and joining the local community. But unlike most of their predecessors, the Mitchel…
With an increase in severe storms and strong winds, row-crop farmers are looking for new ways to work with Mother Nature. Several seed companies have been experimenting with short-stature corn.
Steve W. Martin, who has studied better materials for better batteries for four decades at Iowa State University, lists the cheap raw materials campus researchers are considering for one of their latest battery projects.
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MANHATTEN, Ill. -- Dave Kestel has seen a lot of changes in his years of farming.
It’s going to take more than one good idea to boost the number of veterinarians available for large-animal production.
For many people, weather is the ultimate small-talk topic. But for the farmers who feed the world, weather is huge – it can be the difference between a bumper crop and a total loss – so weather talk is anything but small. And Eric Snodgrass, Nutrien’s principal atmospheric scientist, says he…
LUCK, Wis. – There was a time when folks came together all across the land. They helped thresh each other’s grain. They raised barns. Get-togethers moved from farm to farm across neighborhoods, townships and counties. It wasn’t just for important work; celebrations, dances and socials also b…
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Researchers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service are helping poultry farmers protect their flocks and their employees, while improving poultry production. USDA Agricultural Research Service researchers recently developed an indoor air scrubber that purifies…
KWAZULU-NATAL, South Africa – It was a morning South African dairy farmers Carol and Craig Houston were dreading, as staff told them 50 cows were showing signs of the dreaded Foot and Mouth Disease. Even though the country had been plunged into an FMD crisis, the Houstons had tried their bes…
A train of heavy equipment slowly worked its way across 8.6 miles of a northeast Iowa county road this past summer.
A lot has changed on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus since its founding in 1867, but a storied plot of land near the south quad has been preserved nearly intact for a century and a half. The Morrow Plots, famed in song and story, represent the oldest continuously running a…
Maintaining the health of small acreage pastures can be challenging, even in years with normal rainfall and snowpack. The semi-arid climate of Colorado prevents dryland pastures from achieving the same level of productivity observed in states that receive greater precipitation. As a result, …
STOUGHTON, Wis. – Farming is a family affair for the Furseth family. While some families struggle with “the generation gap,” the Furseths say they haven’t had any big arguments.
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DITHMARSCHEN, SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN, Germany – Weeding is one of the most tedious, time-consuming and costly jobs on a vegetable farm. And with labor becoming even more difficult to source, farmers desperately need alternatives.
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