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El Niño effects are still being felt, with dramatic consequences for agriculture. La Niña, now looming large, threatens to wreak further havoc on farming in Africa.

Farmers are being asked to check for middens – tennis ball-sized plugs constructed by earthworms – when monitoring their soil.

GPS farming systems may be down today for some producers. There is a new geostationary satellite going up to replace a WAAS, currently sending signal corrections.

The optimal corn seeding rate is a management (M) variable that depends on the hybrid (genotype, G), and the interaction with the environment (E).

Ukraines commodities alone feed 400 million people around the world. so we cannot afford for the supply chain system and the farming systems to shut down inside ukraine. otherwise, it will notjust be ukrainians who will be paying a major price, this is why weve got to stabilise and help the people in ukraine because it impacts the entire world. given ukraine is considered the breadbasket of europe and as you say, 30% alongside russia of commodities, if you can make a prediction, six months from ...

Food security and livelihoods among smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are often constrained by limited farm resource endowment. It can be difficult to improve resource endowment given barriers such as low land availability and the unaffordability of agricultural inputs, so here we ask whether farmers can gain a better return on their resources through optimising their farm strategy in terms of the composition and/or diversity of crop and livestock species raised. Our survey of 1133 small...

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Icac refuses to confirm or deny if it’s investigating, but has asked questions about the $107,000 grant

Researchers have been awarded funding to help UK farming transition to net zero and become more sustainable. Dr Jackie Stroud at Scotland’s Rural

Dr Casey Doolette is conducting work to better understand factors that limit root growth within soil. Access to the best scientific infrastructure