07/01/2024 SOURCE: www.msstate.edu
Does climate change have an impact on the quality of cotton? Mississippi State scientists hope to answer that question with a new way to monitor the environmental impacts on the cash crop throughout the growing season.
MSU creates groundbreaking cotton quality model to aid farmers
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06/20/2024 SOURCE: www.cals.iastate.edu
Researchers at Iowa State University have identified two genes that can help rice defend itself against diseases, including the devastating fungal blast pathogen. The research team is led by Reuben Peters, Distinguished Professor in the Roy J. Carver Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology, and his laboratory advisees, Yiling Feng, PhD student in the Interdepartmental Plant Biology Program, and Tristan Weers, sophomore in biochemistry.
Researchers identify role of genes that boost disease resiliency in rice
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06/14/2024 SOURCE: farmdocdaily.illinois.edu
The Farm Bill version reported by the House Agricultural Committee would modify Supple-mental Coverage Option (SCO), a crop insurance policy that provides county-level coverage. Be-cause the modifications proposed for SCO…
Cotton STAX and Modified Supplemental Coverage Option: Concerns with Moving Crop Insurance from Risk Management to Income Support
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06/03/2024 SOURCE: www.insurancejournal.com
A Kentucky tobacco farmer has been sentenced to more than three years in prison after pleading guilty to crop insurance fraud, eight years after he was
Tennessee, Kentucky Tobacco Farmer Sentenced for Second Crop Insurance Fraud
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05/24/2024 SOURCE: www.arkansasonline.com
Chickens bred to need less water continued to put on weight despite heat stress that would normally slow growth, according to a new study conducted at a University of Arkansas experiment station.
University of Arkansas research shows possibility for water efficient chicken
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05/21/2024 SOURCE: www.agdaily.com
From funding to infrastructure, survival into the coming decades and centuries will require land-grant universities to continue responding to modern life.
Modern challenges faced by America's land-grant universities | AGDAILY
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05/20/2024 SOURCE: extension.msstate.edu
STARKVILLE, Miss. -- Mississippi’s rice crop is poised to be bigger and healthier than it has been in four years -- the result of increased planting to meet demand and favorable weather conditions
Rice crop starts strong as market prices hold
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05/20/2024 SOURCE: www.purdue.edu
Climate change, extreme weather events, unprecedented records in temperatures and higher, acidic oceans make it difficult to predict the long-term fate of modern crop varieties.
Machine-learning model demonstrates effect of public breeding on rice yields in climate change
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05/16/2024 SOURCE: kfrm.com
By Pat Melgares, K-State Research and Extension news service MANHATTAN, Kan. – No need to tell Kansas wheat producers, but drought has really been a bummer ...
Kansas wheat battling through tough conditions - KFRM Radio 550 AM
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05/09/2024 SOURCE: www.farmprogress.com
Years of work by researchers may pay off with better breeding decisions.
UNL contributes to the id of new genetic defects in cattle
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