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Win-win situation: Growing crops on photovoltaic farms
2014-04-09 21:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Growing agave and other carefully chosen plants amid photovoltaic panels could allow solar farms not only to collect sunlight for electricity but also to produce crops for biofuels, according to new computer models by Stanford scientists. This co-location approach could prove especially useful in sunny, arid regions such as the southwestern United States where water is scarce, said Sujith Ravi, who is conducting postdoctoral research with professors David Lobell and Chris Field, both on faculty...
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Global Warming Reduces the Quality of Food Crops
2014-04-08 09:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Softpedia: Wheat sustains around a quarter of the world's population Scientists at the University of California in Davis (UCD) have determined in a new study that the quality of food crops will continuously decline as global warming intensifies. The more time passes before climate change is addressed, the poorer our foods will get. This is the first time these conclusions were verified in a field test, investigators say. This effect largely occurs because elevated levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere...
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Redesigned crops could produce far more fuel
2014-04-03 21:17:19| Paper - Topix.net
The very compound that keeps plants standing tall has been redesigned to make them easier to break down.
Farmers value cover crops
2014-04-01 19:20:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
National surveys prove corn and soybean yield benefits plus soil health and moisture savings. Under comparable management, with and without cover crops, more than 500 farmers reported a yield gain of approximately 5% in 2013 after using cover crops. And this follows an average 10% yield hike among surveyed farmers in 2012 during drought conditions. read more
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Gavilon calls on U.S. farm sector to deal with unapproved GMO crops
2014-03-24 14:02:19| Agriculture - Topix.net
The U.S. agriculture industry must devise a system to handle genetically modified crops barred by major importers because unapproved varieties will comprise an increasing portion of production in coming years, top executives at grain merchant Gavilon Group LLC said.
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