Agriculture

Spanish authorities on Monday announced a cull of animals infected in the country’s first outbreak of highly contagious lumpy skin disease, which has struck cattle on a farm.This article was originally published here

In the upper Abbay basin, cradle of the Blue Nile, a team of researchers have predicted soils of the future: what will happen to soil organic carbon if we bet on regenerative agriculture—returning residues, organic […]

Rothamsted scientists, together with partners at the University of Olomouc, Czechia, have uncovered how a family of genes in wheat fine-tunes the plant’s growth and grain development, a breakthrough that could help breeders produce bigger […]

If we aim to become more self-sufficient in food, we simply need to produce more. That’s why there has been a need to find varieties and cultivation strategies that improve the quality of Norwegian winter […]

Genetic selection could help farmers and breeders reduce greenhouse gases from crops, particularly rice cultivation, research by the University of Warwick and Cranfield University shows.This article was originally published here

Wheat has a very large and complex genome. Researchers have found that different varieties can use their genes in different ways. By studying RNA—the molecules that carry out instructions from DNA—researchers can see which genes […]

The pumpkin in Tony Scott’s backyard weighs almost as much as a small car.This article was originally published here

Researchers recreated a nearly forgotten yogurt recipe that once was common across the Balkans and Turkey—using ants. Reporting in iScience on October 3, the team shows that bacteria, acids, and enzymes in ants can kickstart […]

Imagine a farm in 2050. It’s summer and solar radiation and humidity are peaking. Fruit picking machines hum and cooling mist sprays overhead. In the haze, a robot stands among the rows of fruit. It […]

The UCO studied, for the first time, how alperujo storage times affect the subsequent composting process, taking into account both the quality of the product and the emission of greenhouse gases and microbiological activity. The […]