Most cows in Nigeria are not for milk says expert

 Maize farmers debunk losses

The Country Director, Business Innovative Facility (BIF), Mr. Soji Apampa has said that most cows in the country were not meant for milk production just as maize farmers in Nigeria has denounced ever recording losses .

A New Global Agriculture: Using Big Data to Bring Farmers Together

For thousands of years, farmers have looked to the clouds for the next sign of rain to irrigate their crops.

Genomic features that make plants good candidates for domestication

highly branched plants of teosinte, a wild relative of corn. Right: tiny pods on the vine of Glycine soja, wild relative of soybean. New research sheds light on how domestication affects the genomes of corn and soybeans.

New research published this week identifies the genomic features that might have made domestication possible for corn and soybeans, two of the world's most critical crop species.

Do additives help the soil?

A UBC researcher is using her latest study to question whether soil additives are worth their salt.

'Exotic' genes may improve cotton yield and quality

Cotton breeders face a "Catch-22." Yield from cotton crops is inversely related to fiber quality. In general, as yield improves, fiber quality decreases, and vice-versa. "This is one of the most significant challenges for cotton breeders," says Peng Chee, a researcher at the University of Georgia.

The hunger gaps: How flowering times affect farmland bees

For the very first time, researchers from the University of Bristol have measured farmland nectar supplies throughout the whole year and revealed hungry gaps when food supply is not meeting pollinator demand. This novel finding reveals new ways of making farmland better for pollinators, benefitting the many crop plants and wildflowers that depend on them.

Pesticide exposure causes bumblebee flight to fall short

Bees exposed to a neonicotinoid pesticide fly only a third of the distance that unexposed bees are able to achieve.

'Right' cover-crop mix good for both Chesapeake and bottom lines

'Right' cover-crop mix good for both Chesapeake and bottom lines

Planting and growing a strategic mix of cover crops not only reduces the loss of nitrogen from farm fields, protecting water quality in the Chesapeake Bay, but the practice also contributes nitrogen to subsequent cash crops, improving yields, according to researchers.

Changing climate may affect animal-to-human disease transfer

Climate change could affect occurrences of diseases like bird-flu and Ebola, with environmental factors playing a larger role than previously understood in animal-to-human disease transfer.

Gene-editing technology may produce resistant virus in cassava plant

The use of gene-editing technology to create virus-resistant cassava plants could have serious negative ramifications, according to new research by plant biologists at the University of Alberta, the University of Liege in Belgium, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.