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Crop adaptation: In efforts to develop crops tolerant to heat and...
2014-10-06 09:33:27| Chemicals - Topix.net
Crop adaptation: In efforts to develop crops tolerant to heat and drought, one promising discovery is fungi found naturally in the soil which allow plants to flourish under harsh conditions. - MCT Imagine a world, just a few decades away, where once-fertile cropland is baked and starved of rain by ongoing climate change.
Long-Term Impacts of Feeding GM Crops to Livestock Evaluated
2014-09-29 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - The Research represents the longest-term monitoring of the health-impact of GM crops in history as it examines at 29 years of livestock productivity and health data from both before and after the introduction of GM crops into animal feed formulations, reports The US Grains Council.
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First freeze causes little damage to US Northern Plains crops
2014-09-12 18:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The U.S. northern Plains and far western Midwest crop regions saw their first freeze of the season but the cold temperatures were only in pockets of the belt, limiting damage to immature corn and soybeans, agricultural meteorologists said on Friday. The forecast called for more cold temperatures in the northern Corn Belt on Saturday morning after lows on Friday morning ranged from the mid-20s to low-30s degrees Fahrenheit (minus 3.9 to 1.7 Celsius) from western Nebraska northward into the western...
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Ozone pollution in India kills crops that could feed starving population
2014-09-10 16:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: In one year, India's ozone pollution damaged millions of tons of the country's major crops, causing losses of more than a billion dollars and destroying enough food to feed tens of millions of people living below the poverty line. These are findings of a new study that looked at the agricultural effects in 2005 of high concentrations of ground-level ozone, a plant-damaging pollutant formed by emissions from vehicles, cooking stoves and other sources. Able to acquire accurate crop production data...
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Can Big Ag Put the Cloud in the Crops Before Someone Else Does?
2014-09-09 09:25:01| Food - Topix.net
Another of the big agricultural giants has joined the race for software-powered farming. Via the WSJ's Jacob Bunge : Cargill Inc. is developing a software service that guides farmers on how to plant crops, a foray that pits the agricultural conglomerate against a host of rivals seeking to harvest reams of data to sell "prescriptive planting" technology in North America.
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