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Pivot Bio is helping farmers reduce reliance on synthetic fertilizers, but it’s still working on replacing them entirely.

Researchers at the University of Georgia Agricultural and Environmental Services Laboratories (AESL) want to make sure that the Vidalia onions you...

Published Sunday, Jul. 4, 2021, 8:53 pm Join AFPs 100,000+ followers on Facebook Purchase a subscription to AFP Subscribe to AFP podcasts on iTunes and Spotify News, press releases, letters to the editor: augustafreepress2@gmail.com (© Andriy Blokhin – stock.adobe.com) Scattered across the mountainous and beautiful Appalachian landscape lie the remnants of what once powered the world: coal mines. These remains are the legacy of mining, but what will be the future of these vast, open spaces...

Date Time Soil, carbon sequestration and fight against climate change The fight against climate change has never been more important. Professor Budiman Minasny is exploring how soil can be a sustainable and potentially powerful tool to combat the effects of global warming. It’s too late. There is now general agreement that the time has passed when we could have tackled climate change by only reducing the use of fossil fuels. Now we also have to look at mechanical ways to remove excess carbon ...

A professor of geology and soil science from a North Dakota university will be the next dean of the College of Agricultural, Life and Physical Sciences at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

Two University of Kentucky faculty members in the College of Arts and Sciences are recipients of The Graduate School’s distinguished annual awards for exemplary research in the last four years and outstanding contributions to graduate student mentoring and graduate education.

Researcher Angie Macias described infected cicadas as "salt shakers of death" in 2013. A bizarre fungal infection turns periodical cicadas into flying zombies. (Image credit: Courtesy of Brian Lovett) All Brood X cicadas want to do is mate and die in peace — is that so much to ask? Unfortunately, a number of the now-emerging cicadas may instead find themselves the victims of a zombifying fungus that transforms their butts into spore-shedding "fungal gardens." For the past 17 years, while Bro...

Rich Koenig has been named interim dean of the College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences, effective July 1, following an open, internal search. He will assume the new role on June 7.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 12, 2021) — The International Center at the University of Kentucky has announced the 2021 UK Global Impact Award (GIA) winners. Recipients include faculty, staff and alumni who have significantly contributed to the university’s global engagement through education, research and service, as well as fostered a culturally diverse, welcoming environment that is conducive to comprehensive campus internationalization. “After being presented with significant challenges to t...

Jun 15, 2021 to Jun 17, 2021 A new grant at Washington State University will allow undergraduate students from WSU, Eastern Washington University, Lewis-Clark State College, and Gonzaga University get real-world agricultural research experience. The USDA National Institute for Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Research and Extension Experiences for Undergraduates (REEU) grant will put students to work on field research and lab work centered on crops, including visits to farms to talk with agricul...