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Agriculture and Food News
July 9, 2023

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Food Labels Offer Consumer Choices but Also Confusion About Animal Welfare

Animal-based food products often come packaged in a wide array of information labels, including organic, natural, grass-fed, humanely raised and pasture-raised. But it's typically up to the consumer to do their homework and figure out what these different claims ...

Building Models to Predict Interactions in Plant Microbiomes

Microbiomes play a key role for plant health and could make agriculture more sustainable -- but the principles behind the assembly of their communities have remained largely unknown. Researchers have shown how bacteria can compete for food, but also cooperate thanks to differences in metabolism -- ...

Queensland Native Forestry Can Help Achieve Global Environment Goals

Research has revealed that Queensland native forestry, including timber harvesting, could actually help conserve biodiversity and mitigate climate ...

Policymakers Should Consider Animal Welfare in Decisions

Incorporating animal welfare into policymaking may improve policy and practice, according to new research. The article notes that animal welfare rarely is considered during policymaking, explains why current tools make it difficult to incorporate the well-being of animals into public policy and ...
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Is the U.S. Ready for an African Swine Fever Outbreak?

Researchers used a computer model to understand how African swine fever (ASF) might spread among swine farms in the southeastern U.S. -- and examined the effectiveness of existing response plans. ...

Do Hummingbirds Drink Alcohol? More Often Than You Think

Animals that eat fruit or sip nectar often ingest alcohol because naturally occurring yeasts turning sugar into ethanol. But how do animals feel about that? A new study details an experiment to ...

Global Analysis on Pollinators in Cities: Wild Bees and Butterflies Are at Particular Risk

蝴蝶由城市发展受到的冲击最为严重。Shrinking habitats and food availability are causing their populations to decline. The same applies to many wild bees that fly early in spring. ...

Conservation Policies Risk Damaging Global Biodiversity, Researchers Argue

Rewilding, organic farming and the 'nature friendly farming' measures included in some government conservation policies risk worsening the global biodiversity crisis by reducing how much ...

Smart Farming Platform Improves Crop Yields, Minimizes Pollution

A new farming system aims to solve one of the biggest problems in modern agriculture: the overuse of fertilizers to improve crop yields and the resulting chemical runoff that pollutes the ...

New Study Reveals Irrigation's Mixed Effects Around the World

Trajectory of irrigation water use in many regions is unsustainable, but practice is vital in managing climate change and future agricultural development, researchers ...

Completing Genome of Rusty Patched Bumble Bee May Offer New Approach to Saving Endangered Bee

A detailed, high-resolution map of the rusty patched bumble bee's genome has been released, offering new approaches for bringing the native pollinator back from the danger of extinction. Putting ...

From Cross to Self-Pollination

Biologists provide evidence for an alternative genetic mechanism that can lead to plants becoming ...

Indirect Effects of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict Revealed: Global Food Supply at Risk

192 countries and 125 different foods: A recent study reveals interdependencies in the global food supply. Here, the researchers have uncovered the profound -- also indirect -- effects of the ...

Change Food Choices to Increase Chances of Tackling Global Warming

Action to protect the planet against the impact of climate change will fall short unless we reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the global food system, which now makes up a third of human-made ...

Genome Editing Used to Create Disease Resistant Rice

Researchers have used the genome-editing tool CRISPR-Cas to create disease resistant rice plants, according to a new study. Small-scale field trials in China show that the newly created rice variety ...

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New Method Traces Ancestry of Hybrid Plants and Animals

Hybrid plants and animals have complicated genomes. A biologist has discovered a way to reveal their parent ...

CRISPR/Cas9-Based Gene Drive Could Suppress Agricultural Pests

Researchers have now used a gene-drive system to suppress an important agricultural ...

Ancient Genomes Show That the Farming Lifestyle in Northwestern Africa Was Ignited by Oversea-Migrants from Iberia 7,400 Years Ago

A genomic analysis of ancient human remains from Morocco in northwest Africa revealed that food production was introduced by Neolithic European and Levantine migrants and then adopted by local ...

Microbes Key to Sequestering Carbon in Soil

Microbes are by far the most important factor in determining how much carbon is stored in the soil, according to a new study with implications for mitigating climate change and improving soil health ...

Human Factors Affect Bees' Communication

Human influences have the potential to reduce the effectivity of communication in bees adding further stress to struggling colonies, according to new ...

Saving Moths May Be Just as Important as Saving the Bees

Night-time pollinators such as moths may visit just as many plants as bees, and should also be the focus of conservation and protection efforts, a new study ...

That's Not Nuts: Almond Milk Yogurt Packs an Overall Greater Nutritional Punch Than Dairy-Based

In a nutritional comparison of plant-based and dairy yogurts, almond milk yogurt came out on top, according to new ...

Saving Our Soil: How to Extend US Breadbasket Fertility for Centuries

The Midwestern United States has lost 57.6 billion tons of topsoil due to farming practices over the past 160 years, and the rate of erosion, even following the U.S. Department of Agriculture's ...

Weevils, Long-Nosed Beetles, Are Unsung Heroes of Pollination

Some of nature's most diverse pollinators often go unnoticed, even by scientists: long-snouted beetles called weevils. A new study provides a deep dive into the more than 600 species of weevils, ...

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