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Topics: Soil Health, Pesticides, Agriculture Global, Pest Control, Fungicides, Insects, Research,

How To Get Rid Of Fungus Gnats In Soil

The real danger with fungus gnats lies in their larvae, which burrow into the soil and devour fungus and mold, often munching on plant roots in the process.

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John LaRose Jr.
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Topics: Agriculture Global, GMO's, Crop Diseases, Potatoes, Genes /Genetics,

MSU researchers breeding beetle-resistant potato varieties

Potato farmers face many challenges. One tiny, yet devastating, pest is the Colorado potato beetle. It can cause immense damage to potato crops. It’s also notorious for becoming resistant to …

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Topics: Forestry, Agriculture Global, Sustainability, Research,

Appropriate preconditioning and testing could reduce winter damage to seedlings

The growth of the trees in the boreal zone is based on the acclimation and adaptation of their annual cycle with the changes of the weather conditions during the four seasons. Winter damage would be one ...

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John LaRose Jr.
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Topics: Livestock/Meat, Agriculture Global, Economics, Beef Cattle, Regenerative Agriculture, Weather,

Feed additive reduces cow methane output by 55% | Boing Boing

Methane produced from cows (cow farts and burps) contribute greatly to the harmful emissions on our planet and are a contributor to global warming. As a way to counteract the methane output from be…

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Topics: Agriculture Global, Food/Nutrition, Sustainability, World Hunger, Ag Africa, Weather,

Africa to push rapid adoption of biotechnology to transform food systems at historic UN Summit - Alliance for Science

Africa will be pushing for a rapid adoption of biotechnology as one tool to help transform the world’s food systems at the historic United Nation’s Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) on Thursday. The 2021 Africa Agriculture Status Report 2021, launched a few days ago by the Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), discloses that the […]

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Topics: Agriculture Global, Food/Nutrition, Crop Diseases, Research, World Hunger, Education,

Scientists uncover pathogen’s similar impact on two very different crops

Bacterial blight leads to browning and sometimes the death of important crops. Most famously, late blight of potato resulted in the Great Irish Famine. Blight continues today, affecting crops around the world. One form of bacterial blight (caused by Pseudomonas cannabina pv. alisalensis or Pcal...

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Topics: Precision AG , Agriculture Global, Economics, Recycling, Regenerative Agriculture,

Special Report: BP gambles big on fast transition from oil to renewables

Deep in the Oman desert lies one of BP's more lucrative projects, a mass of steel pipes and cooling towers that showcases the British energy giant's pioneering natural gas extraction technology.

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Topics: Agriculture Global, GMO's, Research, Ag Global Specialty Food, Genes /Genetics, Ag Innovation,

Glow-in-the-dark plants could act as passive lighting for public spaces

A decent chunk of energy usage goes towards lighting, so scientists at MIT are developing a new kind of passive lighting – glow-in-the-dark plants. In the latest experiment, the team has made them glow much brighter than the first generation plants, without harming their health.

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TOPIC(S): Livestock/Meat, Agriculture Global, Ag United Kingdom,

09/20/2021 SOURCE: finance.yahoo.com

UPDATE 2-UK meat industry warns of imminent threat to supplies from CO2 crisis

Some of Britain's meat processors will run out of carbon dioxide (CO2) within five days, forcing them to halt production and impacting supplies to food retailers, the head of the industry's lobby group warned on Monday. A jump in gas prices has forced several domestic energy suppliers out of business and has shut fertiliser plants that also make CO2 as a by-product of their production process.

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TOPIC(S): Agriculture Global, Sustainability, Climate Change,

09/20/2021 SOURCE: cosmosmagazine.com

A new measurement for sustainable agriculture

An international team of researchers has come up with a quantitative Sustainable Agriculture Matrix to define agricultural goals.

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