SAN ANTONIO – Fred Below has been digging into dirt research for more than 41 years – growing knowledge through huge changes in agriculture. He’s a professor of crop physiology in the University of Illinois-Department of Crop Sciences.
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MELBOURNE, VICTORIA, Australia – For the past 48 years the Kelly family has proudly run a dairy farm near Melbourne, pursuing their dreams of milking cows. But the city creeped ever closer to their doorstep each day.
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LA CROSSE, Wis. – Mark Twain would say all his best ideas had been stolen by the ancients. He may have had the right idea. Studying and learning information from successful people in our field of endeavor can save much time and some heartache. For organic farmers and for farmers who would li…
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- Lauren Quinn University of Illinois
Few pests eat away at farm profitability as much as soybean cyst nematode. Causing at least $1.5 billion in yield losses annually, it’s soybean’s single biggest threat. Unfortunately, soybean’s most effective tool, genetic resistance, is starting to fail.
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- Cindy Hicks Iowa State University
Pollinator declines are a global concern, and agriculture sits at the center of the challenge. As farms grow more efficient and landscapes become increasingly simplified, bees, butterflies and other pollinators are losing the varied habitats they depend on. One widely promoted solution is pl…
- Joe Montgomery and Crystal Ly Kansas State University
New research at Kansas State University aims to tackle one of the most significant threats to global animal health and food security — highly pathogenic avian influenza, or HPAI — by using mealworms, a supplement of poultry feed, as a vaccine-delivery method.
- Emily Haeg University of Minnesota
In 1971, Hank and Maren Mitchell purchased farmland perched along the Crow Wing River in Verndale, Minnesota. Like many aspiring farmers before them, they envisioned raising a family, becoming self-sufficient and joining the local community. But unlike most of their predecessors, the Mitchel…
- Crystal Reed
With an increase in severe storms and strong winds, row-crop farmers are looking for new ways to work with Mother Nature. Several seed companies have been experimenting with short-stature corn.
- Mike Krapfl Iowa State University
Steve W. Martin, who has studied better materials for better batteries for four decades at Iowa State University, lists the cheap raw materials campus researchers are considering for one of their latest battery projects.
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- Crystal Reed
MANHATTEN, Ill. -- Dave Kestel has seen a lot of changes in his years of farming.
- Tim Kenyon
It’s going to take more than one good idea to boost the number of veterinarians available for large-animal production.
For many people, weather is the ultimate small-talk topic. But for the farmers who feed the world, weather is huge – it can be the difference between a bumper crop and a total loss – so weather talk is anything but small. And Eric Snodgrass, Nutrien’s principal atmospheric scientist, says he…
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LUCK, Wis. – There was a time when folks came together all across the land. They helped thresh each other’s grain. They raised barns. Get-togethers moved from farm to farm across neighborhoods, townships and counties. It wasn’t just for important work; celebrations, dances and socials also b…
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