A new dataset and analysis are set to ensure crop breeders develop new varieties that benefit the world’s most disadvantaged people. The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research’s Excellence in Breeding Platform led a data-collection effort across public-breeding programs an…
A method to edit multiple genes in plants while simultaneously changing the expression of other genes recently was developed by scientists from the University of Maryland-College of Agriculture and Natural Resources. Called the “CRISPR-Combo” the tool is expected to enable genetic-engineerin…
Genetically modified Bt corn has little impact on non-target insects and other organisms, according to a recently published study by a scientist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service and colleagues from Switzerland.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Food Program warn that acute food insecurity is likely to deteriorate further in 2022 in 20 countries or situations. They’re called hunger hotspots.
HERBSTER, Wis. – Sometimes we just don’t see the good in the familiar. We tend to take some things for granted. But when we look closely we can see just how important the familiar can be.
Every day plants take carbon dioxide from the air and – with the help of sunlight – turn it into chemicals essential to plants and humans. Some of the chemicals, known as aromatic compounds, are the starting material for medications. Yet it’s difficult for plants to make enough of them to ha…
CHILTON, Wis. – The journey toward implementing conservation practices can intimidate farmers, especially those with no prior experience. But networking with other farmers and sharing experiences has given Mitchell Schaefer the confidence to try them on his farm.
Climate change, growing threat
WASHBURN, Wis. – Folks speak wistfully of a time when a sense of community existed in our nation, when people helped each other. They supported local farms and farmers by purchasing from them. Folks knew the farmers and they knew where the food they ate came from. Supply chains were short an…
Paying more attention to feed-efficiency indexes when selecting sires for dairy herds will help compensate the current escalating costs of feed being witnessed. Around the world feed, fertilizer and energy costs have reached record levels that are decimating profits on dairy farms. Even thou…
WAUPUN, Wis. – United Cooperative and the city of Waupun finalized a developer’s agreement June 14 for a $100 million investment. The investment is to eventually include a soybean-processing facility in the Waupun Industrial Park on the city’s southwest side.
OPINION Editor’s note: António Guterres addressed June 17 the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate in Washington, D.C., convened by the United States top climate envoy, John Kerry, and hosted by President Joe Biden. The meeting included countries representing 80 percent of global gro…
WEST ALLIS, Wis. – A “Dairy Dash” and a photo opportunity with a grilled-cheese sandwich larger than life-sized are in store for inquiring minds. They’re the two newest features planned for “Dairy Lane” at the 2022 Wisconsin State Fair, scheduled to be held Aug. 4-14 in West Allis.
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New breeding techniques such as genome editing enable scientists to adjust a plant’s own deoxyribonucleic acid – DNA. That makes plants more resilient to changing environmental conditions. The European Sustainable Agriculture through Genome Editing network recently published an interactive g…
Developing potato cultivars with modified starch could open new market opportunities, say Texas A&M University-AgriLife scientists. They’re using genetic engineering to alter the ratio of potato-starch molecules in order to increase both culinary and industrial applications.
BAYFIELD, Wis. – When chores were done Grandpa would tell us stories. One was about a wanderer who lost his way in a deep forest. Just as hope was abandoned a clearing opened before him. It was filled with a lush garden full of medicines, fruit and berries. The people who lived in the forest…
Tomatoes gene-edited to produce vitamin D could be a simple innovation to address a global health problem. Researchers at the United Kingdom’s John Innes Centre used gene-editing technology to turn off a specific molecule in the plant’s genome. That increased provitamin D3 in both tomato fru…
Vehicles could deter birds
The effects of climate change are bringing new and increasingly complex challenges to agriculture. One problem is the exacerbation of nutrient pollution. Warmer temperatures can increase undesirable gaseous emissions from applied fertilizers. More intense or frequent severe storms can cause …
BAYFIELD, Wis. – Where will the next generation of farmers be found? How can folks from cities with no farm background start a life in agriculture?
Researchers at Kansas State University and one of the world’s largest manufacturers of agricultural machinery are reporting findings of a project that they say could “fundamentally change” the way farmers manage and market crops.
The New Zealand government has launched draft proposals to tax farmers on cattle and sheep burps. If adopted, New Zealand will be the first country in the world to enter into such a scheme that will tax farmers on the amount of methane produced by their livestock. It’s a bid to tackle increa…
WAUPUN, Wis. — United Cooperative plans to phase in a $100 million investment to eventually include soybean processing in an industrial park on Waupun’s southwest side.
For everyone who has time to peruse an extremely large dairy reference, the newest “Nutrient Requirements of Dairy Cattle” is available. It’s the eighth version, with the first published in 1944 by the National Research Council; its dairy section was 21 pages.
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