Complementing Plant Breeding Programs with Biotechnology By Dr Tom Elmo Clemente, University of Nebraska-Lincoln There are three components that impact crop harvests: the genetics of the seed sown, the environment in which the crop is grown, and the inputs employed...
Dr Keerti Rathore – Bioengineered Cotton Could Help Solve World Hunger Humans have relied on cotton’s textile fibre for nearly seven millennia. However, utilising cottonseed as food has been a long and unfulfilled goal of many plant breeders. Along with its...
Dr Victor E. Cabrera – Dairy Brain: A Step Towards Smarter Management in Dairy Farms To manage their farms effectively, dairy farmers must base their decisions on real-time and continuous data streams, which collect information about feeding, milking, and an...
Dr Mark Gleason – Intelligent Spraying: Improving Prospects for Sustainable Pesticide Use Tweet Share 0 Reddit +1 Pocket Pinterest 0 LinkedIn 0 Email VKontakte Pesticides may be essential in ensuring abundant and healthy yields of many crops, but so far, the...
Dr Lynn Brandenberger | Dr Joshua Massey – ‘Green Manure’: How Cover Crops Create Healthy Soils and Boost Crop Yields Tweet Share 0 Reddit +1 Pocket Pinterest 0 LinkedIn 0 Email VKontakte In order to meet the demands of a growing human population, farmers across...
Dr Marília Chiavegato – Integrating Sustainability with Productivity in Crop and Animal Farming Tweet Share 0 Reddit +1 Pocket Pinterest 0 LinkedIn 0 Email VKontakte The demand on agricultural systems to increase the food supply has risen sharply as the global...
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