USDA and Partners to Provide New Genetic Resources to Support Global...
United States Department of Agriculture The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS), partnering with Bioversity International and the Global Crop Diversity Trust,...
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Climate insurance, not just crop insurance
By Julia Olmstead, senior associate, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy The Hill Today, the Senate Agriculture Committee will hear arguments to expand the federal crop insurance program in the...
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Research achievements and adoption of no-till, dryland cropping in the...
By Neil Hansen et al Field Crops Research The Great Plains of the United States. The Great Plains region of the United States is an area of widespread dryland crop production, with wheat being the...
View ArticleNew Science Reveals Agriculture’s True Climate Impact
By Tom Laskawy Think Progress When I examined the reasons agriculture often gets a pass in climate negotiations recently, I pointed to the fact that precise measurement of the climate impact of many...
View ArticleGenetic analysis of corn may help increase yields
Asian News International Scientists have completed the most comprehensive genetic analysis yet of corn genome. The interdisciplinary team, led by researchers at Cornell University and the U.S....
View ArticleHeat Bakes U.S. Wheat
By Phoebe Sedgman Bloomberg Business Week About 55 percent of the contiguous U.S. states were in moderate-to-extreme drought at the end of June, the highest percentage since December 1956, according to...
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Farmers trying to adapt to climate change
By David Pitt The Associated Press Scientists are working on a new generation of hardier animals and plants that are engineered to survive, and even thrive, in intense heat, with little rain. Cattle...
View ArticleCalifornia’s carbon price rollout
by Erwin Jackson Crikey Australia is certainly not going it alone on a carbon price – the latest cab off the rank will be California, which begins its cap-and-trade scheme in January 2013. Erwin...
View ArticleClimate change researchers reach out to ag community
By Sean Ellis Capital Press BOISE — Researchers working on agriculture-related climate change projects in the Pacific Northwest agreed recently that working closer with the farm community and seeking...
View ArticleThe New Green: Farming affects, and is affected by climate
By Kelsey Sullivan The Daily Campus Everyone knows that farming is heavily influenced by climate. Environmental factors like precipitation, soil health and temperature determine which crops will grow...
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