Rethink rotations before switching to organic grains
In Purdue research, a corn-soybeans-wheat/alfalfa-alfalfa rotation provided the highest first-crop profitability in transitioning to organic grain production.
Agencies commit $50 million to create climate change models, study impacts
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. departments of agriculture and energy and the National Science Foundation have created a joint research program that designates nearly $50...
Which cover crop should you plant? It depends
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- More farmers are using cover crops to limit erosion from fields, control weed growth, fix nitrogen in the soil, feed...
Seed vault stores global crop diversity insurance policy
LONGYEARBYEN, Norway -- Days after celebrating its second anniversary, the Svalbard "Doomsday" Global Seed Vault received thousands of new seeds that will push its...
DuPont Pioneer to build new research labs in Iowa
DES MOINES, Iowa -- DuPont's Pioneer Hi-Bred is expanding its presence in central Iowa with additional lab facilities focused on advanced plant genetics. The...
Synthetic biology: Can corn learn how to fix nitrogen?
Is it possible to "teach" corn to fix its own nitrogen, thus eliminating the need for nitrogen fertilizer applications?
Farmers can get loans for cold storage
WASHINGTON -- The USDA's Farm Storage Facility Loan program has been amended to allow producers to build cold storage facilities to store their fresh...
Can wheat producers keep pace with growing global demand?
Farmers around the world have responded to growing demand by producing record crops recently. As a result, USDA forecasts that global ending stocks for 2009/10 (June-May) will be 196.8 million metric tons, up 60 percent from a recent low of 123.3 million metric tons in 2007/08.
U.S. and China agree on reopening Chinese pork market to U.S.
WASHINGTON -- The United States and China have reached an agreement to reopen the Chinese market to U.S. pork and pork products.Pork trade will...
32 Ohio counties given disaster designation; Pa., W.Va. and Ky. counties also named
COLUMBUS -- U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Thomas Vilsack has designated 10 counties in Ohio as primary agricultural natural disaster areas, due to multiple disasters...
