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USDA Test Measures Healthy Compounds
A new test developed by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists is now measuring the health-promoting compounds in fruits and vegetables. This story from the USDA’s Agricultural Research...
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Cornell Proves Honeybee Hives May Be Unnecessary
Researchers from the Cornell Horticlutrue Section of the School of Intergrative Plant Science and the Department of Entomology have experimented with a rather surprising subject. The Cornell orchards...
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Harvest After Rain Enhances Food Safety
New research shows that waiting to harvest after a rain enhances food safety. This news release from Cornell University says rain or irrigation creates soil conditions that are more hospitable to...
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Cambridge Consultants Develops Breakthrough Robot
The product design and development firm, Cambridge Consultants, has created a breakthrough in the food chain. The team there has created a robot designed to handle complex tasks like sorting fruits...
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Feed A Bee Plants Over 65M Flowers In 2015
Bayer’s Feed A Bee campaign successfully planted over 65 million flowers in 2015 thanks to the support and contributions of consumers and industry partners. More than 250,000 consumers joined the...
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Forecast Calls for Dormex
The strongest El Nino on record is causing serious rainfall across the country and growers are more concerned than ever about proper application timing to get the best results from their plant growth...
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High Tunnel Farming Means More Fresh Produce
Consumers in Tennessee don’t often find freshly grown local vegetables year round, but that’s exactly what Falcon Ride Farm is producing. Their popular CSA program provides the local community with...
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NR Gene Assembles Strawberry Genome
NRGene has successfully assembled the strawberry genome. While most plant, animal and human genomes are diploid with two variant for each gene, the strawberry has eight nearly identical copies of each...
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Nufarm’s Mycoshield Showing Positive Results
The Potato Expo in San Fansisco earlier this month gave Chuck Zimmerman a chance to talk to Nufarm Manager of Tech Services, Alan Haack about an issue affecting the home state of AgWired’s world...
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Texas A&M Study Investigates Strip Tillage
Drs. Daniel Leskovar, Yahia Othman and Xuejun Dong at Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center have been researching conservation tillage methods that may offer benefits to high-value...
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