Page 40 - Crop Sciences News Today

February’s Texas cold snap dropped temperatures to as low as -12 degrees Fahrenheit in the Panhandle to mid-single digits as far south as the Austin region. Some locations, including Tyler, set all-time record lows, according to a recent Texas AgriLife Extension Texas Row Crops  Newsletter.  Lubbock recorded -6 degress, only the third time below 0 degrees since 1980, and the coldest since 1963, reported Calvin Trostle, Texas AgriLife Extension agronomist, Department of Soil & Crop S...

Pasture-cropping is designed to regenerate the soil beneath established pastures. Texas A&M AgriLife-led research to analyze effectiveness and economics of pasture cropping. Adopting the ecologically sensitive, low-cost conservation management pasture-cropping practice could help landowners regain the health and resiliency of soils sustaining degradation over the years. Pasture cropping, a relatively new and innovative land management system, integrates direct seeding of cool-season annual...

Energy sorghum may combine best of annual, perennial bioenergy crops Large perennial grasses like miscanthus are a primary target for use as bioenergy crops. Post to Facebook Energy sorghum may combine best of annual, perennial bioenergy crops Large perennial grasses like miscanthus are a primary target for use as bioenergy crops. Check out this story on FarmersAdvance.com: https://www.farmersadvance.com/story/news/2021/02/10/energy-sorghum-may-combine-best-annual-perennial-bioenergy-crops/4...

Variable weather makes weeds harder to whack Canton Daily Ledger URBANA—From flooded spring fields to summer hailstorms and drought, farmers are well aware the weather is changing. It often means spring planting can’t happen on time or has to happen twice to make up for catastrophic losses of young seedlings. According to a joint study between University of Illinois and USDA-ARS, it also means common pre-emergence herbicides are less effective. With less weed control at the beginning of the...

Credit: F Klaus/University of Göttingen A higher diversity of flowering plants increases the breeding success of wild bees and may help compensate for the negative effects of insecticides. This is what researchers from the Universities of Göttingen and Hohenheim, as well as the Julius Kühn Institute, have found in a large-scale experimental study. The results have been published in the scientific journal Ecology Letters. In their experiment, the researchers investigated how successfully the...

With cities around the globe locking down yet again amid soaring COVID-19 numbers, could seasonality be partially to blame? New research from the University of Illinois says yes.

 E-Mail IMAGE: University of Illinois researchers, including Gustavo Caetano-Anolles, say COVID-19 is likely to become seasonal after the initial pandemic is brought under control. view more  Credit: L. Brian Stauffer, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - With cities around the globe locking down yet again amid soaring COVID-19 numbers, could seasonality be partially to blame? New research from the University of Illinois says yes. In a paper published in Evolutionary Bioinformatics,...

AMES, Iowa – How bioreactors are being used to address water quality issues around the world is the topic of an Iowa Learning Farms webinar on Wednesday, Jan. 20 at noon. Denitrifying woodchip bioreactors are promoted in the Midwest to clean nitrate from tile drainage, but did you know that they are also being tested around the [...]

Seed development helps boost food production, academy says By WANG XIAODONG | China Daily | Updated: 2021-01-13 09:09 Share [Photo/VCG] Improved research and development of seeds has greatly contributed to increased food production and overall food security in China over the past five years, the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences said on Tuesday. With the development of agricultural science and technology, more domestically developed crop...

Flag Leaves Could Help Top Off Photosynthetic Performance In Rice The flag leaf is the last to emerge, indicating the transition from crop growth to grain production. Photosynthesis in this leaf provides the majority of the carbohydrates needed for grain filling—so it is the most important leaf for yield potential. A team from the University of Illinois and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) found that some flag leaves of different varieties of rice transform light and carbon di...